Don't let the title alarm you - the upcoming age of electric vehicles isn't being overshadowed by some bold, new technology.
For now, Tesla owners are still safe. You aren't behind the curve quite yet.
But according to Microcap Insider chief editor Alex Koyfman, there's a new development on the horizon that will fundamentally change the way we build all electric motors.
It's not simply a marginal improvement. It's the solution to a problem that has been puzzling engineers since the first motor was created.
You see, every electric motor on Earth has a key design flaw: It can either be on or off.
In its most basic form, an electric motor is simply a coil of wire with a power source attached. When power runs through the wire, the coiling creates a magnetic field. That resulting field creates rotational energy and turns the motor.To get more power, you simply increase the voltage. It's an incredibly simple process. Humans have been using motors of more or less the same design since 1835.
Since then, every engineer in the field has, ironically, been attempting to mimic the electric motor's most worthy adversary: the internal combustion engine. You'll Never Be On The Inside!
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A typical gas engine has a series of gears to help take advantage of the power delivery. To more efficiently move from a standstill, the engine starts in a lower gear and progressively moves up to a higher ratio.
This process makes the engine vastly more efficient by balancing the amount of torque needed for a given driving situation. Gasoline engines would struggle to get up hills and burn enormous amounts of gas at high speeds without clever gearing systems.
Electric motors can't hold a candle here. The only method for increasing speed is to increase the voltage, using up more power.
This is one of the EV industry's final hurdles to clear. Adding an "electronic gearbox" would all but guarantee an electric motor's superiority over its longtime competitors.
In a thrilling upset, the company closest to commercializing the greatest breakthrough in the history of transportation isn't a massive industry giant with a market cap in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
It wasn't Elon Musk... or any of the other major automakers vying to oust him from the EV throne.
The company making it is still in stealth mode. It's been given almost zero public attention. We only got wind of this thanks to Alex Koyfman's ongoing research in the industry.
It's a tiny Canadian firm with a share price under $10 - at least, for now.
This is a massively important discovery for far more than just EVs. The planet's transportation system runs on an incredible amount of electric motors. Every single one of them suffers from the natural inefficiency of being either exclusively on or off.
Electric trains, for example, use far more energy to start up than they do during their cruising speeds. An "electronic gearbox" would pay for itself relatively quickly over time in this case.
But don't take it from me. Listen to the expert himself explain the mechanics behind this fascinating tech debut.
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Luke SweeneyContributor, Outsider Club