Energy Efficiency

How efficient are the best of today’s commercially available electric motors?






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90% or even higher

And here's something for you to take back

If that is a bit demotivating for those who wish to make motors more efficient (well, how much more efficient can they get!), here is something that could juice it up: Motors are responsible for consuming 40% all the electricity consumed worldwide, so even a 2% increase in its efficiency could mean about 1% less electricity required worldwide if all motors upgrade to it.

That could mean about 120 million tons of less CO2 emitted globally, per year. Now that's a number that could


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