- OUR COMPANY
Protean Electric is an award-winning technology company that has developed an in-wheel electric drive system for hybrid,
plug-in hybrid and battery electric light-duty vehicles. The Protean Drive™ system can improve vehicle fuel economy, add torque, increase power and enable improved vehicle handling to both new and existing vehicles.OUR COMPANY - OUR TECHNOLOGY
Protean Drive™ is a fully integrated, direct-drive solution.
We started with a clean sheet of paper and turned the motor inside out.OUR TECHNOLOGY - CUSTOMER CENTER
RECENT PROJECTS
Protean Electric and Millbrook Proving Ground, one of Europe's leading vehicle test and demonstration centers, partnered to produce the Vivaro diesel hybrid van. Protean Electric outfitted the front-wheel-drive Vivaro with a Through-The-Road-Hybrid conversion kit of two Protean Electric motors attached to the rear axle. Work is now underway to build a Vivaro Plug-In Parallel Through-The-Road-Hybrid test fleet for select fleet customers.
CUSTOMER CENTER - EVENTS
- MEDIA CENTER
LATEST NEWS
Industry research shows that about one in every 20 fleet vehicles will be a hybrid by 2015, due mostly to new fleet vehicle purchases. But in this era of extreme cost cutting, Protean Electric, the global leader in advanced in-wheel motors, is giving fleet owners another solution with Protean Drive™.
MEDIA CENTER
Bob Purcell, chairman and CEO of Protean Electric, was invited to contribute a feature article at CenterForABetterLife.com, a sustainable lifestyle website and publication, on Protean Electric’s in-wheel motors and its advanced Protean Drive™ system.
I’ve devoted much of my career toward the electrification of the automobile. I’ve seen the introduction of dozens of advanced technologies whose grand promises would make you believe they could solve world hunger in addition to saving gasoline. Yet, as I look back, in most cases, those technologies were hyped and then quietly faded into obscurity without fulfilling a single promise. Why?
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