By Quincy Preston
By Dom DiFurio
Public-Private Partnership Provides $68.9 Million in Economic Incentives for Linear Labs to Grow Employment and Usher-in Electrification 2.0 With Advanced Manufacturing and Research Headquarters
A public/private partnership between Fort Worth and Linear Labs could make the city home to the smart electric motor industry. And, Linear Labs could get around $70M for R&D from the city to do so
The Hunstable Electric Turbine can produce up to three times the torque of any other motor
With the electric vehicle (EV) market heating up and due to become ever hotter, there’s a lot of focus on the key components that go into this major evolution of transportation technologies. Batteries get all the headlines, but just as important – maybe even more so – are motors, or electric motors more specifically.
By Brad Hunstable
Linear Labs was founded as a father-son team based in Ft. Worth, Texas six years ago. Prior to that, father Fred Hunstable designed electrical systems for nuclear power stations for companies like Ebasco and Walker Engineering before the U.S. put the kibosh on atomic energy generation. Son Brad Hunstable co-founded streaming service Ustream, sold to IBM for $150M in early 2016. Together, the Hunstables say they’ve created “a new class of electric motor” called the Hunstable Electric Turbine (HET), promising that “For the same size, same weight, same volume, and the same amount of input energy into the motor, we will always produce… two to three times the torque output of any electric motor in the world.”