It’s been approximately twelve years since the inventor, Tom Hopkins, first started designing the motor with a capital investment over USD11 million to date. The Australian based licensee, Zeus Austral Pacific Pty Ltd, has been working on commercialising the manufacturing of the ZEUS Motor™ for the past 3 years and is scheduled to install the first motors into a commercial property running fans in mid-2026

We did not follow standard practice in motor design which is to make a motor bigger and heavier in order to make it more efficient. It’s a J curve: as the motor is made heavier (X axis), the motor gets more efficient (Y axis). We did the opposite. To make it more efficient, we reduced the weight. We showed that it is actually a U curve, and that we could make the motor even more efficient than a heavy motor by making it much lighter 

We put together a team of engineers to design the motor. We wanted a break-through design so we did not include any engineers who were experienced motor designers and who knew the “standard” practice… we did not want to be standard. We wanted exceptional… something different… and got it.

Yes. The ZEUS Motor™ is more efficient than any other industrial motors on the market. Rated at IE7 equivalent compared to the most efficient alternative on the market at IE5. The ZEUS Motor™ is also 1/3 the size and 1/4 the weight of other available motors, using WEG NEMA IE3 motor as a comparator.

Yes. We have been granted seven patents in the US and also have multiple international patents that have either been granted or are currently being examined. ZEUS’ patent attorney wrote: “I am thrilled with the scope of the claims the USPTO has allowed during the first year of prosecution. This is a testament to the creativity and ingenuity your team has brought to bear when designing the ZEUS Motor™ permanent magnet motor”.

Our current strategy is to work with licensed manufacturers, Zeus Austral Pacific Pty Ltd
(ZAP) based in Townsville Australia is our first manufacturing partner. ZAP is currently preparing to put the first motors into a commercial property running fans in mid-2026.

It depends on its use. If a motor is used in an industrial application — it is stationary and drives water pumps, compressors, fans, conveyors, etc. — we rate it on its “continuous power output”, i.e., the power it can put out without overheating while running non-stop, 24/7.

If, on the other hand, a motor is used in a traction application— it is used in a mobile application to drive vehicles — we rate it on its “peak power output”, i.e., the power it can put out for 30 seconds without overheating such as when a vehicle accelerates to pass a vehicle in front of it, passes, then pulls back in front of the vehicle it passed

The ZEUS Motor™ is designed to allow its peak power to be four times the continuous power. So our 13” dia. motor will put out 30 hp continuous, or 120 hp peak. Such a x4 multiple is unusual… most motors can only put out peak power that is x2 continuous. We designed it that way.

The cooling systems are different. Our industrial motors 15 to 30 hp continuous are air cooled (these motors are called “TENV” – Totally Enclosed Non-Ventilated). Our industrial motors from 40 to 250 hp continuous are fan cooled (TEFC). Our traction motors (125, 250, 500, and 1,000 peak hp) are water/glycol-cooled. They need a radiator.

The ZEUS Motor™ is the world’s most energy efficient industrial motor, independently tested by Advanced Energy, it is more efficient than the world’s highest efficiency rating. The ZEUS Motor™ has a certified efficient rating equivalent to an IE7.

Over 100 industrial motors. We’ll have four frame sizes with three or four different power outputs from each

13”: 15, 20, or 25 continuous hp;

16”: 30, 40, or 50 contin. hp;

18”: 60, 75, or 100 contin. hp;

20”: 125, 150, 200, or 250 contin. hp)

These motors will run at different speeds (250/300 rpm, 750/900 rpm, 1500/1800 rpm, 3000/3600 rpm). They will also be suppled in different applications (general purpose, explosion proof (XP), flood proof, etc.)

Four traction motors. The same four frame sizes (13”, 16”, 18” & 20”) deliver 125 peak hp, 250 peak, 500 peak, and 1,000 peak respectively). These motors run at 4800 rpm.

That is the 51 billion tons per year of CO2 (40.4 billion) and CO2 equivalent (10.1 billion tons) that float up into the atmosphere and impede the radiation of heat back into deep space. The CO2e is other greenhouse gases such as methane.

The cleanest energy is the energy not used. The ZEUS Motor’s high efficiency maximizes what is not used, reducing power requirements, and allowing coal-fired power plants to be shut down.