Joby Motors Santa Cruz, CA

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http://www.jobymotors.com/

About Us
Joby Motors is producing lightweight, ultra-efficient motors for use in electric aircraft. These brushless permanent magnet motors attain high torque at low speeds, while retaining a high power density.

The design team is currently building 5-10 kW motors for small aircraft while simultaneously building 20-30 kW motors for future vehicles. In addition, Joby Motors is developing customized, highly reliable and robust motor controllers.
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Joby Motors was founded by JoeBen Bevirt, an inveterate entrepreneur born with a passion for engineering that has driven the formation of two successful companies over the past 10 years.

In early 2008, JoeBen turned his focus to renewable energy and founded Joby Energy Inc. to develop groundbreaking airborne wind turbines to harness the power of high-altitude wind.

This engineering challenge required the development of extremely lightweight, highly efficient motors and motor controllers. Optimized for turbines and electric aircraft, these unique direct drive motors have undergone extensive testing and optimization cycles.

Joby Motors is comprised of a growing team of dedicated and talented engineers and technicians representing the finest in motor and motor controller designers from around the world.
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8.2-18 kW range of motors...

One model for example:
Joby_JM2_2012.jpg

Construction inrunner
Nominal Voltage 70 - 100 V
Poles 46
Nominal RPM 2500
Maximum RPM 3500
Diameter 200 mm
Mass 4000 g
Length 75 mm
Continuous Torque 53 N-m
Continuous Shaft Power at Nominal RPM 14 kW
Peak Torque 80 N-m
Peak Shaft Power at Nominal RPM 20.9 kW
Price $1,299 USD

Standard Available Windings

3 turns 29 rpm/V


More standard windings listed here
http://www.jobymotors.com/public/img/products/joby_motors_windings.pdf
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Mr.Bevirt has big plans for his motors:
http://techpulse360.com/2010/04/19/...le-to-commute-by-electric-plane-jetson-style/
Entrepreneur Wants People To Commute By Electric Plane, Jetson Style
JoeBen Bevirt wants to change the way you commute to work. Really change it.
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And he is building the prototype to prove it. His dream is a one-person electric plane that takes off like a helicopter – straight up – and has folding wings so it can fit in a typical parking spot.
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This is in the city I live in. I will be checking it out.
 
The best thing I like is that they actually tell you the price and they give you options. I would love 3 of these motors stacked togther to get me a 60kW peak 18lb rubber burner!

Interested to know what you find out LFP
 
Dang! me likey the two smaller offerings, size wise they
look to be suitable for e-bicyle use albeit extremely high powered e-bikes LoL
The other two would be great for e-motorcycle's i wonder if one of
the e-motorcyle companys will test them perhaps someone like Zero?
seeing they are in the same city and all ;-P

KiM
 
Sounds like we need to put together a "company" and put together a groupbuy ....errrr.... "sample order" together... :twisted:

Edit: At second glance, it looks like it won't be terribly hard to get a hold of one of these : https://www.jobyrobotics.com/manufacturer.php?id_manufacturer=7
 
grindz145 said:
Sounds like we need to put together a "company" and put together a groupbuy ....errrr.... "sample order" together... :twisted:

Edit: At second glance, it looks like it won't be terribly hard to get a hold of one of these : https://www.jobyrobotics.com/manufacturer.php?id_manufacturer=7
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One more impressive thing: 1.8kg .....This is really good...
 
the smallest motor with 8,2kW continuous, 12kW peak power (and all the other motors) probably need a lot of cooling air to deliver this kind of power. (atleast so it seems with the total open design)

i like these motors very much!
 
They are built to be behind prop wash, so I would agree that the numbers are with pretty hefty air flow. At any rate, looks like a banging design! Huge radius on the rotor!
 
This could be very interesting to follow-->

"The design team is currently building 5 kW motors for small airborne wind system prototypes while simultaneously building 20-30 kW motors for future vehicles. These motors will be used to pilot and test 30 and 100 kW systems in the short-term. Larger motors are planned for multi-MW commercial systems.

Marius is now concentrating on what the design team sees as another big challenge — designing the prototype motor controller. “Our motor controller is fairly complex. It needs to handle high electric current and voltage, needs to be lightweight and efficient both in motoring and generating mode,” he said. “It also needs to be highly reliable and robust, maintain optimal speeds and protect against overloads and faults.”"

KiM
 
I will be stopping by joby tomorrow. :)
 
Luke , find out what mags they use ? Typical or something fresh , and take a look at the wire - windings ...
 
Hi,

Controllers might be more valuable than the motors:
http://www.jobymotors.com/index.php
jobymotors.com said:
The design team is currently building 5-10 kW motors for small aircraft while simultaneously building 20-30 kW motors for future vehicles. In addition, Joby Motors is developing customized, highly reliable and robust motor controllers.
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