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erdinand Porsche’s first automotive invention was an electric wheel-hub motor, which he raced in Vienna in 1897. Motors are round, they fit nicely inside of wheels, and that’s where today’s EVs might put them if their added unsprung mass didn’t wreck ride quality. Two months ago, we covered a company seeking to solve this problem by using the motor as an active suspension element, lifting itself up over bumps and

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