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48 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I JUNE 2025 ing for Hewlett-Packard Taiwan. Back then, he only made plastic knobs for television sets, but he was a major contributor to Sampo Corpora- tion, Taiwan's major appliance manufacturer. I was part of the government's program to bring electronics manufacturing and computer tech- nology to Taiwan. EV Motors anks to Edison and Tesla, electric motors have been around for a long time. With the boom in electric vehicles, electric motors will e age of electric vehicles has arrived. If we can improve energy storage, lower the price tag of batteries, and make them work at lower temperatures, EVs may become our favorite mode of transportation. Certainly, the motors are going through a massive change. Figure 1 shows a typical EV motor. In a prior column 1 , I discussed my former employer, Foxconn, and its goals of providing 25% of all the required components of future EVs. is was formulated by Terry Goa, Fox- conn chair, whom I met in 1982 while work- PCBs Replace Motor Windings Happy's Tech Talk #39 by Happy Holden, I-CONNECT007 Figure 1: A next-generation Magna EV power motor 800V delivers 258-kW peak power at 93% efficiency 2 .