Total EV sources the motors, utilizing its existing relationship with Heinzmann Motors. Worksman then buys the motors, applies them to its cycles and either sells the new, total product directly or back to Total EV to market to its customers. Total EV, based in Tulsa, OK, is a business unit of American Electric Power in Columbus, Ohio. Worksman Trading Corporation, known as Worksman Cycles, is one of America's oldest bicycle manufacturers having produced cycles since 1898. Worksman Cycles are manufactured in Ozone Park New York close to JFK Airport.
All electric motors work off magnetism.
Then the rotation of the rotor is harnessed to do work. Motors are both extremely simple, and endlessly subtle. There are several forms of basic motor designs, and infinite variations of details in design and construction. In a common household motor that is plugged into the wall, electro magnets create both magnetic fields. This is cheap to build, but uses more electricity than permanent magnet types.