IN-WHEEL ELECTRIC MOTOR PROVIDED WITH AN INVERTER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUCH AN IN-WHEEL ELECTRIC MOTOR

摘要

An in-wheel electric motor includes a stator with at a vehicle side an connector member, a cylindrical hollow stator body connected to the connector member; an outer surface of the stator body being equipped with stator windings, and further including a cylindrical rotor body coaxially enclosing the stator; the electric motor further including a power electronics device for powering the stator windings, wherein the hollow stator body is provided with a stator body opening at a road side of the electric motor for receiving the power electronics device, and the enclosing rotor body is provided with a removable cover plate covering a rotor body opening of the rotor body at the road side and covering the stator body opening.