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\n\nElectric vehicles<\/a>, whether they\u2019re cars on the road or\u00a0electric vertical take-off and landing<\/a>\u00a0(eVTOL<\/a>) aircraft, are built around similar\u00a0electric motors<\/a>. But there are vital differences including component costs, mass, and redundancy.\n\nJon Wagner<\/a>\u00a0spent five years as the senior director of battery engineering for\u00a0Tesla<\/a>\u00a0before joining California-based eVTOL developer\u00a0Joby Aviation<\/a>\u00a0in 2017. He spoke with\u00a0IEEE Spectrum<\/em>\u00a0about how engineering differs between cars and aircraft.\n\n<\/div><\/blockquote>\nPour en savoir plus : What Makes eVTOL Motors Different Than EV Motors?<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Electric vehicles, whether they\u2019re cars on the road or\u00a0electric vertical take-off and landing\u00a0(eVTOL) aircraft, are built around similar\u00a0electric motors. But there are vital differences including component costs, mass, and redundancy. Jon Wagner\u00a0spent five years as the senior director of battery engineering for\u00a0Tesla\u00a0before joining California-based eVTOL developer\u00a0Joby Aviation\u00a0in 2017. He spoke with\u00a0IEEE Spectrum\u00a0about how engineering differs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,16],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-57646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualite-aeronautique","category-rti","tag-actualites"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat Makes eVTOL Motors Different Than EV Motors? - NAE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nae.fr\/en\/2026\/05\/04\/what-makes-evtol-motors-different-than-ev-motors\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Makes eVTOL Motors Different Than EV Motors? - NAE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Electric vehicles, whether they\u2019re cars on the road or\u00a0electric vertical take-off and landing\u00a0(eVTOL) aircraft, are built around similar\u00a0electric motors. 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