In 2012, Protean Electric—a Michigan-based company with $84 million in Chinese funding—announced it was reinventing the wheel, so to speak. The idea was to create in-wheel electric motors that would ...

VANCOUVER, Wash., March 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Consolidated Metco, Inc. (ConMet®) announced today that it is partnering with Protean Holdings Corp. (Protean Electric) to develop an electric in-wheel ...

Consolidated Metco (ConMet) announced it is partnering with Protean Holdings Corp. (Protean Electric) to develop an electric in-wheel drive system to provide hybrid-electric solutions for the medium ...

Protean's in-wheel electric drive solution. Photo: Protean Electric ConMet and Protean Electric have formed a partnership to develop an electric in-wheel drive system as a hybrid-electric solution for ...

SHANGHAI, April 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Protean Electric, a global electric drive technology company, will feature its ProteanDRIVE® in-wheel motors on two vehicles at Auto Shanghai 2017, the largest ...

Protean Electric (Protean), a specialist developer of in-wheel motor (IWM) technology, has announced the production launch of its ProteanDrive Generation 5 (‘Gen 5’) IWM. The firm’s new generation of ...

Chinese automaker Dongfeng has launched a production model with in-wheel motors from supplier Protean Electric. In press releases, Protean claims the Dongfeng Fengshen E70 is the "world's first fully ...

A Surrey-based developer of in-wheel motor technology has been bought by an international drivetrain components manufacturer. Tier 1 supplier EXEDY Corporation acquired Protean Electric, headquartered ...

Protean Electric Ltd., a developer of in-wheel electric drive systems, has secured $40 million in Series E funding. Oak Investment Partners and Weifu High-Technology Group led the investment.

Another company has surfaced with an electric conversion for the original Defender, but there's a difference this time. U.K.-based Bedeo's electric Defender uses in-wheel motors, which Bedeo has ...