 Hi, this is MXUX. I just wanted to bang out this video site because I saw this cool video, Lord's Time Motors It's Alive. This is from Total Controls in Tennessee. And they've installed a digital robotic inspection tool here on a robot to inspect the dashboards. I just want to get this. There we go. Check this out. Wait, let's go back to the beginning here. All right. Check this out. That's the Lord's Time plan. That's a dashboard for the doors coming in. And this robot with this cool background music. This is a 2D robot. It's taking digital pictures. And it's inspecting this assembly for quality control. Check it out. Look how cool that is. And those come in overhead on that overhead conveyor. They go down and this is all the output that's generated by that camera. And this computer software checks everything. I think it's so cool. Anyway, this is the state-of-the-art stuff. You know, it pretty thinks, you know, where it's downside in the middle of some cornfield in Ohio there. Yeah. Who else is using this? I bet Ford isn't even using this. I think Nissan is using it. This is a new system. Anyway, I think it's just super, super cool. I mean, just the music, just this video. These guys should get an award for this. And I imagine they're going to use this technology on all their subcomponents. Maybe they're main components. And you talk about quality control. There's the line. There it is coming through. Next year is going to come up. Fantastic. Then you enhance. There we go. Give these guys a shot if you need this system. Hi. This is just a short article, a recent article from 2021 July, real recent. Laffy's announced on the in-wheel hub motor. And I've got a couple other things I'm going to show on this too. I'm just going to say this is real quick. This is the highest-performance direct-drive gearless in-wheel powertrain. This is what they're using on the Endurance. Notable with each extremely high torque, low weight, unique, compact packaging. 15,000,000 newton, 15,000,000 newton meters of torque. I don't know what that is. 147 miles per hour. Okay. I said they had the Endurance up to 130 miles an hour on a track. Optimized, blah, blah, blah. Designed, electric hybrid, rappeling cost-effectively with that compliment. Anyway, prototype mules based on this. Now, this was something that Q's views was asking about. They put these motors on a BMW X6 and they did a 3.5 second 0 to 100 kilometers, which is 65 miles an hour. So 0 to 60. I think a BMW X6 SUV is comparable in weight to a the Endurance. Tier one supplier, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, just wanted to point that out. Let's go on to the next section here. And just reviewing the Lordstown Motors Tech. This is just another little piece here on, a little longer piece in e-mobility engineering. I believe I've mentioned this in some of my other videos, the L1500 wheel motor, which is what Lordstown is using. Okay, we'll use cookies. All right. So this has been ongoing this development of this product since 2006. Radio flux three phase AC synchronous motor weighing 33 kilograms, which is 65 pounds, something like that. 67 pounds. 2019 based on an earlier model. The active part of the motor, the electric machine with winding takes up just 30% of the overall weight, giving it a torque density of 460 newtons. The nearest competitor is 390. So it's very efficient. Again, I was talking earlier about the lightweight of the endurance and how it makes a difference. And it's this goes all the way down into the motors as well. Endurance weighs 4,000 pounds. And these motors are the most effective of their type. Anyway, probably have a lot of types. Has 83 components, the motor, 60% of which are standard supplier parts. And the rest mostly castings are customized supply customized supplier solutions. So Lordstown should have no trouble getting this up and running. Okay. Direct drive out running, meaning the external rotor and an internal stator. So the outside rotates the internal parties stiff. The stator ring is made from magnetic steel laminations. It's poles. He's a patented winding method developed in house. It attaches directly to the vehicle knuckles. So again, another IP. Logistics have been strongly prioritized. As a result, the wheel integrations using motor will also corporate standard off to self automotive bearings and braking systems. So again, Lordstown will have no trouble integrating this into their vehicle. Standard brakes, bearings so forth, can you be used as a result, each customer's motor. Okay. So anyway, they're just saying here that, you know, this is this is a really elegant design, which uses a lot of conventional parts, which are already tested improving. As a result, each customer's motor can be customized to agree degree to modify the rotor and stator interfaces to accommodate the preferences in peripheral components, such as brakes, bearings and other internal parts. So again, they can change sizes to accommodate whatever brakes they think the endurance is going to need. And I think this is something they may have mentioned, but again, it's not a big deal. This is a big deal within five minutes. Yeah. And this is the electric motor. This is like taking a V eight out of a truck only you can do it on the endurance in five minutes can be integrated or removed from a car for routine maintenance, such as brake inspections and replacements. And what they don't say here is you can use common hand tools to do this. You do not need specialized tools. You need torque wrench. Customizing wheel motors, performance for bearings and brakes, the L 1500 performance components can also be tailored to meet manufacturers specific requirements. Again, you know, Lord's time has a secret sauce. They're going to they're going to build this motor the way they wanted. They're building it on site. Here's permanent magnet, blah, blah, liquid, cooled operating range 200 800 volts. So it can do 800 volts. It can do the big voltage. Oh, so at least this means a little very little to me. Anyway, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Here's, you know, Elon's first principles. Well, these guys, they do what's called, what do they call it? Do they call their approach? I don't know. Anyway, they take all aspects in into effect, simultaneous. It's what we call our multi physics approach. So electromechanical, thermo mechanical and control. Everything is addressed simultaneously at the same time during development testing. So they've been unified approach. So Elon must get his first principles. They have multi physics. Anyway, these guys are really smart. They're astrophysicists. I have other videos on this that go into great depth on these motors. In general, testing strategies based on three factors. Okay, testing based on OEM and international standards. So these have all been tested out to original equipment manufacturers and international automotive set of standards. Then legislation, you know, whatever I guess they're saying individual legislation from countries or regions. And lastly, their own testing system. So these these have been tested out and for integration to OEM manufacturers. I'm not going to go through all this. This is all about the testing here. A lot of this is devoted to bearing selection. Again, these are standard bearings. They're integrated. Here's a picture of the aluminum rotor, which drives the truck. Final assembly, blah, blah, blah. Most of the world high power like our high speed and medium or low torque system. So measurement equipment worldwide. So anyway, the point is they got high speed high torque. Medium or low torque. Okay, so I'm picking, I don't know, what's rivian low torque, see climbing up that hill. Let's test the medium. They got a bunch of different tests. Measuring stasis has been delved internally. They've done their own testing. The high torque requirements. So these are high, they keep mentioning high torque, high torque, high torque. So this is what you want in performance. You lightweight high torque, you race guy, your car guy. I don't know that much about cars. That's important. Anyway, avoids resident frequencies, blah, blah, blah. The rotor is an outrunner configuration with the rotor directly driving the wheel as it rotates. Okay, you understand that? That's the rotor. It's driving the wheel. It's an outrunner. Okay. In our publicly known solutions, so they've got private solutions obviously, we construct a rotor with surface mounted permanent magnets. There's 40 magnets on the L1500. Neodynium, which is one of the strongest magnets there is. I do believe you guys can get up, you egg heads and high torque density. So there you go. These things are strong. These are the kind of things that'll, you know, snap your finger off if you get in between them. The L100 stator poles use a form of winding patent by a lobby. So this is all, in other words, you're not going to get a lot of competitors with Lordstown. Lordstown has the rights, the North American rights to this. I don't believe anybody else is going to develop this. I mean, they've been working on this for 12 years. I don't think we got anything to worry about. Everybody's basing their configurations on that yesteryear, you know, like they're building a, you know, a mixer for a cake, making cakes, you know, they get to motor in it with the speed knob on it. Anyway, if you use uninterrupted continuous wire instead of so many separate pieces, you don't need much insulation. It's much more class effective. Our method made use only 24 welds. So anyway, they're using a totally different method than anybody else. It's kind of like one wire row wound around the stator. Okay. Torque energy efficiency, cooling, hairpin stators, thick bands, the conductor bands, every round, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So what's his name? Sandy Monroe said this was a preferential winding using these thick, thick pins rather than other ones. We have patented this approach and then since then some may have adopted helical. So anyway, they have automated winding machinery, blah, blah, testing procedures. So they're being copied, but they still have an advantage. And here's a good, this is the stator. This is the thing that has the pins in it that needs to cool it. And this is a stator with the brake. This brake can fall installed. Okay. That's one part of the motor. So the motor has two parts. This is one part. And there's the brake. Liquid cooling, it uses a freezer water. Anyway, they got their own inverters that they've developed. They use external inverters. They go through this and talking about how they wanted to make it not locked in the manufacturer to one inverter. So they can use newer technology or different technology or however they want to do it. So again, total flexibility with the Lordstown for parting and availability of parts and so forth. And this is a picture of the assembled motor. And these are the electrical connections. I think this is a cooling connection. I don't know if that's it. There's two in there. Anyway, motor control software again, is developed with a modular architecture, blah, blah, blah, blah, to be enable compatibility with varying inverter hardware. It expects further future adventures and ververs, they will hire switching speeds and therefore further improvements in motor controls. So everybody's been talking about well, they don't have the torque control down and everything. So, obviously they're settling in on their components, their inverters and their other parts they're going to be using to put the system together. And the software here is set up to adapt to that. So they got to throw a few software switches and do a little testing to get that all worked out. But as you can see, it's a complete system inverter software control motors. And I'm going to go over in a second here that they also have the manufacturing machinery. They mentioned their stator winding machines and so forth. So anyway, this is just a just kind of an update on the hub motor. I think everybody's forgetting how really cool and groundbreaking this is and how much Elon Musk is probably jealous of this in my opinion. Anyway, Sandy Monroe is involved with Apptera. He's invested a lot of money in Apptera. Apptera using the same motors. And that's the three-wheeled aerodynamic self-charging EV. And you know, I'm just going to put a bug in everybody's ear. You know, hey, Apptera, a lot of space in this plant. They're going to have the only North American manufacturing facility for these motors. I think we got to start building Apptera at this plant as well. All right. I think that's possibility in my estimation. Look for that in future videos. I've done a lot of videos on the Apptera. It's a good fit. Okay. I noticed some of the other YouTubers, Q's views, was asking for an update on the manufacturing of the motor line at Lordstown, the installation. They got the machines coming in from Malaysia. This is, I believe this is for ISO 9000 certification. And oh, it's an R&D project. Well, forgive me, whatever. This is something that was produced. This is a bit old. It's 2018. But just to give you, this is the assembly line for the L1500. This is obviously, what, three or four years old now? And I don't know if Lordstown is going to be using this exact thing, but this will just give you an idea. Okay. First draft. Okay. Review and release. Okay. Blah, blah, blah. Five, 2018. So this goes through the ProDrive project game, solving the needs of OEM. Okay. This just talks about they're calling the Elafi F-100 the ProDrive offer a complete solution for OEMs to use in their design of upper segment cars vehicles. So this is much like our advanced looks like European Union. This looks like the advanced technology line that the United States is supposed to offer that they'll probably stiff Lordstown on. Sorry, I'll need it anyway. Anyway, so this is their proposal or this is a summary of their systems that they've created so far. First draft, content, finalized documents. So let's just go through this real quick. And this is a demonstration of manufacturer ability. Okay. So this is just, as you can see, this is almost a lab like setting. But you can see here, this is how they've set up the assembly line. You know, they got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12 people. And this guy looks like he's there. So they got 12 people on the line there, operating machinery and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 people, 16, 17 people there. Anyway, the point is these are probably all going to be robots or most of them. And this is blah, blah, blah. And scope of the document assembly line demonstrator. Okay. So this is just a demonstration of the assembly line. And this is the stator assembly line. And there's our, this is actually the rotor assembly, excuse me, rotor assembly station, task assembly, wire 3d formulation. Now, again, these are people that could be in places at different times. And this is, again, just an idea. And again, I'm sure that, okay, this is the stator. Okay, this is one of the stator designs. I believe they've changed this spoke design here. But insulation insertion. So now this is a great picture here. It shows you the little fins here. And this is where the copper wires go in to create the stator. And then these are machines that have been developed to bend and shape and insert these wires. So this is probably something that is going to be installed in Lord's Town, something similar to this. These are the bus bars. And this is the assembly that's, you know, kind of glued in there or cast in there. These are for the electrical and control connections for the stator. Very simplified construction. If you compare this to the Tesla, I mean, man, this is one tenth less than one tenth of the parts. Anyway, that's it. That's basically it. That man there. That's the stator. Okay. And again, this is a good view of what the stator looks like underneath everything. There's the coiled wires. It's a very good view, actually. I don't know if you, how well you can see that. thermostat. Let's see if we can take that up a little bit so you can get a better look at that. There we go. Look at that. Look how cool that is. And they're trying to use one complete wire or a limited number of wires in this to make it even more effective. And again, this is where the control bus fits in. And there's the connections for the control bus there. Very simple construction. Look at this. Look how elegant it is. It's elegant. I'm telling you. And this is an exploded view here. Chose some of the things that are needed, you know, not much really. And these must be the hand operations that are required. You know, putting a couple of screws in. So the main, the bulwark of this is done, you know, and here's the status again. And there's the bus. And then now here's the machines. Let's see if we can get this a little bigger. You can get a look. This is what they're waiting for from Malaysia or some version of this. And these are bending those wires and weaving, you know, weaving that, weaving into those slots, the stator one. So it's very cool. And just to give you an idea of what this manufacturing, I mean, this is so much simpler than for any other electric motor manufacturer. I mean, guys, this is unbelievably simple. This is, as I like to say, elegant. Anyway, if we go down further here, and again, here is the assembly. And this is, you know, kind of in a prototype stage here. But look, they've got a few extra cooling hoses. This is, I think, I don't believe the production version has this on it, but it might. But again, this will show you the assembly here. What do they got? Lock-Eyed, you know, putting it together. Look how simple this is. One, two, three, you know, they got some small screws, not great, Janima Rowe wouldn't be happy with that. They got some O-rings. You know, this is a simple assembly. Okay. And there it is there. And maybe we do have these cooling outlets on the present model. I'm not sure. But anyway, the point is that's the stator. That's the whole, that's the whole thing. And stator mold. Okay, so they mold the exterior. Exterior is being molded. That's what this is in mold. Okay, these are, these are evacuations so they can mold a metal or epoxy or whatever it is they mold around the motor. So you got the machines, then they mold the exterior on it and boom, boom, boom, boom. There you go. And then let's just go down a little bit here. Due to the road simplicity, the road line consists of only one workplace on which magnet gluing processes perform. Cycle time for the well-leaved is keeping the automated magnet gluing machine is already developed. Okay. For another, so they're going to have an automated magnet gluing machine at Lordstown. High volume. The magnet gluing machine can simply be upgraded to the L1500 specifications. So they're going to have the, the magnet gluing machines at Lordstown, the latest configuration. And then they're going to have the stator wire bending machines as well. And I'm sure they're going to have robotics moving these parts around. Anyway, this, okay, for all you New Yorkers, this is that in a cornfield in the middle of Ohio, useless eaters. Okay. So this is, this is very cool. So this is it. And it's got the, the motors, the magnets are glued inside and we've got a magnet gluing machine. I guess this is one of the magnets here. This might be the placement of one of the magnets. Anyway, fully automated magnet gluing machine on a different product line. Okay. So this is what they're going to have at Lordstown, but it's going to be for their model of motor. So that's also going to be on. So you can see how simple this is. Final assembly. Here it is. Fully automatic motor coupling machine. Patent pending a pro drive, blah, blah, blah, assembles the rotor. So this is automated too. So, you know, you got very few, this is going to be, you know, the, there are going to be, there are going to be a few small screws. Looks like put in by humans. There's going to be much else done here by humans. This is an automated machine that's going to assemble these two parts together. And there is an example of that. And what do we got here? Interface installation on this workstation interface and external components are installed. Okay. So you've got, these are the coolant lines going in. And these is, this is the control lines and the power lines. And that's it. They got some lock out here and some Teflon tape. Okay. Looks like one of my projects put a roll of duct tape in there. You got something and a bigger hammer. Anyway, RSL sensor installation, whatever this may be, I'm not sure, but that looks like it might be done by humans. And here's the components and here's what they look like, you know, with the lines all wrapped up, not being connected. That's your motor. That's the whole thing. That's it. Let's take that up a little bit so you can get a better look at that. There, there it is. That's it. That's it. That's it. Just to give you an idea of what the production line is going to look like. And our measuring station didn't come in through. And what is this? This is the end of line testing, fully automated. So you can see this is going to be a full, I mean, you talk about, this is going to be basically a fully, you talk about lowering production costs and simplifying, you know, a vehicle. I mean, you can't get much, I don't know how you can simplify, unless you go to zero gravity propulsion, which if Elon Musk is an alien hybrid, which I think he is, which he may be working on, this has got to be the simplest way to do it. And the margin on these trucks is going to be tremendous. Once they start cranking these things out and think about it, let's say you have a problem with one of your motors, you could send this thing UPS, hold it on yourself for five minutes with antools. I mean, I know that's what Abterus is talking about doing. Let's just take that up a second and there's the testing, there's the testing jig fully automated. All right, so just to give you an idea, this is what the manufacturing could possibly look like, in-house, outsourced directly to appropriate workstation, install the motor. So this is the busbar that delivers the power to the motor. And patents are automated. See, this is automated. And 3D-D wire is automated by Alamfe. This is going to be in-house, it's going to be outsourced. So these are all, I mean, this part, this bill of materials, this bomb for this motor, it's like a half-page long. Okay, there's your brake sub-assembly. Well, what do you got? Hey, you got the disc brake. Duh. Third structure along with the stator of the rotor, connecting the bearing disc brake and caliper mounting plate to the parking brake. So you got the parking brake. This is the standard stuff here. No big deal. This brake with a parking brake mounts, there's the motor mount right there. This hub mounts on the stator, and the stator mounts on the stator mount, mounts on the wheel knuckle. Simple. The rotor is attached to the wheel and goes around. And base cables. Okay, so, you know, this is standard electrical stuff here. Conclusion. Presented for several L15-100 motor demonstration product and highlights. And let's see, so you can read this if you pause it. The main characteristic highlights the processes performed on individual workstations. The main characteristics of the L100 motor assembly line is reflected in flexibility for transferring from low to high volume production. Many of the fully automated machines are already developed by Laffy's for Laffy's higher target volume products. It lay outside the scope of ProDrive. This is kind of a prototype project. Easyable, easily adjustable to the L, so this is this is not prototype manufacturing machinery. This is all proven and it's being adapted up to the L15-100 by simply replacing some of the machine modules. Laffy's higher target volume products that lay outside the scope of ProDrive products are easy adjustable to the L15-100, but simply by replacing some of the machine modules if the volumes of the L100 motor exceed expectations and will allow further investments into the line. Okay, so I mean that's the end of the report, but that'll give you an idea of a pretty well thought out and simplified and well automated production line for these motors and just that's the assembly and the test the casting of the rotor and the gluing of the magnets and here they're casting around the stator and there's the stator again and again with these beautiful that looks beautiful then the windings and the minimal I mean you know the other beauty of this is there's the automated wire bending robots again the wire bending robots a stator dressing sequence so again you know this is taking my birds off these castings I guess but anyway the point is this should give you a real good idea of what it takes to make one of these motors and again this is from 2018 and this was really a prototype kind of a production proposal for this motor assembly line but just trying to highlight the tech out in the middle of the cornfield everybody's underestimating this company the president schmitt I'll tell you what he's the man this is his baby he's going to pull all this together he already is and uh anyway I think it's going to be uh see this is I think this this is this is the new new guys all the cars are going to be made like this I mean why would you make a motor any other way did you see Sandy Monroe's videos when he takes apart the the uh Tesla motor oh god anyway that's it and I don't think I'm going to put a close on this video I just want to tell you thanks for watching and so we got funding this line is coming through for Lordstown it's on the boat from Malaysia and again you can see all these machines involved here this is going to be pretty automated they're going to put a few robots in here just like these Steve schmitt put that inspection robot on the dash line this is going to be a high quality vehicle lightweight torque power it's going to be nice it's going to be nice for fleets and it's going to be nice for consumers everybody's overlooking with a good consumer truck this is going to be you know if you want to drive uh you know 8 000 pound you know massive cement truck around you know that's great I mean you know the cyber truck is probably going to weigh that much the Ford f-150 lightning is going to be one of the heaviest I think it's 9 000 pounds that's okay but if you're in a city and you're urban you're an urban cowboy you like a pickup truck Los Angeles or anywhere else if you're not really doing uh work that requires you hauling around tons of stuff I think this is going to be the truck for you this is going to be the consumer truck the endurance I think everybody's going to be shocked by it again at 0 to 60 3.2 section 600 horsepower they had it up to 130 miles an hour on the track torque vector and traction control torque control I mean this is like an f1 anyway everybody all right thanks for watching hope you like the video anyway guys I hope you like uh the video I just want to say that um you know this infrastructure plans coming up they're going to need pickup trucks use pickup trucks are selling it above their original sticker price Ford has thousands of ice pickup trucks waiting on a racetrack in Tennessee for chips to run them uh they got eight plant shutdown GM nobody can make a pickup truck right now the only people that are going to have pickup trucks available are going to be lords town in September especially with this funding line that's come in so I'm not a financial advisor this is not financial advice I hope you like the video and please uh follow the instructions on the next trip thanks a lot