# Supplier for wheel hub motors?

**URL:** <https://community.electricforum.com/t/supplier-for-wheel-hub-motors/515>\
**Category:** Do It Yourself (DIY)\
**Created:** [January 8, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/supplier-for-wheel-hub-motors/515 "2008-01-08T18:41:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Le\_Pirate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@Le\_Pirate](https://community.electricforum.com/u/Le_Pirate)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/supplier-for-wheel-hub-motors/515/1 "2008-01-08T18:41:12Z")

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I’m looking to buy some in wheel motors like these:

[www.pmlflightlink.com/motors/hipa\_drive.html](http://www.pmlflightlink.com/motors/hipa_drive.html)

Those are nice but i can’t find any sort of price for them…and the US distributor doesn’t have any links to them on their site.

are there any other companies that produce these types of motors?

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**Author:** ![FEUS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ebca7d/32.png) [@FEUS](https://community.electricforum.com/u/FEUS)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 6:23am UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/supplier-for-wheel-hub-motors/515/2 "2008-01-09T06:23:52Z")

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after looking arround on their site, they are just the manufacturer. they have a list of suppliers here:

[http://www.pmlflightlink.com/distributors\_north\_america.html](http://www.pmlflightlink.com/distributors_north_america.html)

I suggest contacting them just to get a price quote.

let us know what you find out, and make sure to ask if there is a discount for mass purchases and if so, how much of a discount there becomes.

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**Author:** ![Jack\_the\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jack\_the\_R](https://community.electricforum.com/u/Jack_the_R)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 1:55pm UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/supplier-for-wheel-hub-motors/515/3 "2008-01-09T13:55:27Z")

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I asked for a price quote back in June - here’s what PML Flightlink said-

> At present they are all being built by hand to customer order; nothing is available ‘off the shelf’. We quote for each application individually. (As a rough guide, the HPD30 motors are priced at GBP £7420 each and the master controller for 2-wheel drive is GBP £4000. This is the cheapest Hi Pa drive option available. Over the next 18 – 24 months we will be moving into high volume production for the automotive market. Prices will drop to around 7 – 10% of the current prototype prices). With some basic information we can quickly size and quote for the wheel motors and drives required for each application.

I decided to wait a couple years for the price of the next-gen motors and batteries to come down, but I don’t commute to work every day.