A tabletop motor using an entirely new driving principle is
under development at the headquarters of C-Motive Technologies, a startup
business that is commercializing technology from the College of Engineering at
UW-Madison.
“We have proven the concept of a new motor that uses
electric fields rather than magnetic fields to transform electricity into a
rotary force,” says company co-founder Dan Ludois, an assistant professor of
electrical and computer engineering at the UW. The distinction may sound minor,
but it could solve a number of practical problems while saving money, he
explains.