Electric motors are round. Wheels are round. It's a pretty natural impulse to combine the two. No lesser automotive luminary than Dr. Ferdinand Porsche did it first, inventing the wheel-hub motor in ...

There's about to be a new name in lightweight, high-performance brakes: Orbis. If the name rings a bell, our 2018 test drive of a Honda Civic Type R had a set of Orbis wheel-hub motors fitted to the ...

The Segway hasn’t been the runaway hit that inventor Dean Kamen hoped–only 50,000 have been sold in seven years–but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for a little healthy competition. The Orbis, a ...

You generally don’t see people on Segways in real-life, as they remain pretty much banned in the locales where they’d have the highest demand. Well, perhaps the Orbis Urban Mobility Vehicle will have ...

The Orbis is only half as big as the Segway that spawned it, but don’t let that fool you. The thing’s easily twice as cool, especially if you happen to be Woz playing Segway polo. I mean come on.