Backed by a $20 million seed round, Conifer's motor innovation could have a big impact on micro mobility. It all has to do with magnets.

Launching things with electromagnetism is pretty fun, with linear induction motors being a popular design that finds use from everywhere in hobby designs like [Tom Stanton]’s to the ...

by means of a 1980s Maytag washing machine motor. Many of us will be used to old-style induction motors, in which two windings were fed out of phase via a large capacitor. This one doesn’t have ...