Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

United States of America As Represented by the Administrator of Nasa

Logan Christopher Farrell

Chunhao J Lee

Robert Louis Vitale

Steven J Weber

Raymond Guo

Lucien Q Junkin

William J Bluethmann

Eduardo Herrera

Thomas M Waligora

Ross Briant Winn

Joshua M Figuered

James Jonathan Rogers

Raymond Edward Eggleston, Iv

A wheel assembly for an electric vehicle includes a wheel rim that is concentrically disposed about a central axis. A propulsion-braking module is disposed within an interior region of the wheel rim. The propulsion-braking module rotatably supports the wheel rim for rotation about the central axis. The propulsion-braking module includes a liquid cooled electric motor having a rotor rotatable about the central axis, and a stator disposed radially inside the rotor relative to the central axis. A motor-wheel interface hub is fixedly attached to the wheel rim, and is directly attached to the rotor for rotation with the rotor. The motor-wheel interface hub directly transmits torque from the electric motor to the wheel rim at a 1:1 ratio. The propulsion-braking module includes a drum brake system having an electric motor that rotates a cam device, which actuates the brake shoes.

Propulsion wheel motor for an electric vehicle

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West Lafayette, IN, United States of America

Logan Christopher Farrell