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Did you know Trivia - Back in the Cold War 1970s, a Russian radio transmission specialist stationed in East Germany dreamed up a new, more efficient electric motor that could produce 35% more torque for the same amount of power. Vasily Shkondin's idea could have remained in obscurity behind the Iron Curtain, but today it's the centerpiece of a bold bid to reshape urban transport.
It has taken decades of engineering refinement, millions in venture capital, and the audacious vision of a 31-year-old U.S. chief executive, but Shkondin's motor is going global. A six-year-old British startup called Ultra Motor is using the patented Shkondin design to power a range of affordable, nonpolluting electric scooters known as "light electric vehicles," or LEVs.
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