{"id":127082,"date":"2021-09-01T23:24:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T06:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/australian-company-unveils-1340-horsepower-electric-motor-for-hypercar-hyperloop-applications"},"modified":"2021-09-01T23:24:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T06:24:39","slug":"australian-company-unveils-1340-horsepower-electric-motor-for-hypercar-hyperloop-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/australian-company-unveils-1340-horsepower-electric-motor-for-hypercar-hyperloop-applications","title":{"rendered":"Australian company unveils 1,340-horsepower electric motor for hypercar, hyperloop applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/australian-company-unveils-1340-horsepower-electric-motor-for-hypercar-hyperloop-applications2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Australian company by the name of HyperPower Technologies has developed an electric motor that generates a mammoth 1,340 horsepower.<\/p>\n<p>The electric motor, code-named the QFM-360-X, measures about 17 inches in diameter and is designed to be scalable. HyperPower said ten of them could be mounted on a common shaft to deliver 13,400 hp.<\/p>\n<p>To demonstrate the performance, HyperPower teamed up with electric drag racers Top EV Racing and built a Top Fuel-style dragster powered by four of the motors for a combined output of 5,360 hp. Performance estimates for the electric beast include a 0\u2013124 mph time of 0.8 seconds, a 0\u2013330 mph time of 3.7 seconds, and a top speed of 380 mph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian company by the name of HyperPower Technologies has developed an electric motor that generates a mammoth 1,340 horsepower. The electric motor, code-named the QFM-360-X, measures about 17 inches in diameter and is designed to be scalable. HyperPower said ten of them could be mounted on a common shaft to deliver 13,400 hp. To [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}