{"id":232445,"date":"2026-03-03T01:29:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/how-an-overlooked-electrostatic-force-could-drive-the-motor-of-the-future"},"modified":"2026-03-03T01:29:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:29:53","slug":"how-an-overlooked-electrostatic-force-could-drive-the-motor-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/how-an-overlooked-electrostatic-force-could-drive-the-motor-of-the-future","title":{"rendered":"How an overlooked electrostatic force could drive the motor of the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-an-overlooked-electrostatic-force-could-drive-the-motor-of-the-future.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we hear about moving objects with electricity, most of us imagine a \u201cpulling force.\u201d Positive and negative charges attract each other, drawing objects together. It is natural to think that this attractive force\u2014known as electrostatic force\u2014is what makes things move.<\/p>\n<p>However, this force is not very strong, and it has not been suitable for driving large machines in our daily lives. For that reason, most practical motors rely on a different mechanism. For example, the motors in electric fans and electric vehicles do not use electricity directly to create motion. Instead, they use electricity to generate a magnetic field, and then use that magnetic force to rotate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we hear about moving objects with electricity, most of us imagine a \u201cpulling force.\u201d Positive and negative charges attract each other, drawing objects together. It is natural to think that this attractive force\u2014known as electrostatic force\u2014is what makes things move. However, this force is not very strong, and it has not been suitable for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232445","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}