How Did ZF Do This? Super Compact, 90Nm Motor

ZF release 90NM, 600w tiny compact 2025 emtb motor

ETHICS, DISCLAIMER and TRANSPARENCY: ZF hired me to present the new motor and test it at Eurobike, showcase the brand and introduce to ZF to my audience, and to produce a video for on my YouTube channel, and is such labelled as a paid partnership on YouTube.

[ebike_mike_nj]

I've worked with many ZF marine gears on ships and after working with them for over 15 years I can easily say that they are pretty much bulletproof. Never had to repair one that failed. It was mainly just new installations, alignments, and preventative maintenance. Never knew they were in the ebike business. That's def a good piece of machinery.

[lozetchells]

You had me at sealed oil bath guaranteed for the lifetime of the system. This is the motor I'm most keen to try of all.

[robertocalvo]

Surprising that ZF, the best gear company in the world, didnt come out with an integrated gear system like the Pinion

[ram]

Rob, you have become Mr EMTB. Great review.

[MartinLaufl]

I like Rob's soundtrack choices for an intro

[freddyatlarge]

Dude you are freaking me out dropping all this new tech, keep it coming!

[dabo]

Way better than all the other videos from german guys! Really useful information, thx!

[curioussand]

I have a 6-speed ZF automatic transmission in my 2007 3-liter 6 cyllinder diesel BMW, it's currently at 280.000 miles. Good stuff

[Philscbx]

Should be Belt drive with internal 8 speed rear hub.
With E braking for long downhill runs.

No doubt, it's absolutely gorgeous design.
Cheers

[fredEVOIX]

as someone who drove sportscars for 20 years I hope to be able to buy this motor system and continue enjoying ZF parts in a different hobby
hopefully not only available on 10'000 bikes ><

[Arturito]

EMTB are heading in an amazing direction

[waynephilbert]

Outstanding work. And can you imagine how good their motor gearbox unit would be?

The pace of development is just incredible.

[elliot]

Nice one Rob, best ZF motor review I've seen over the past few days. Exciting times ahead

[mintsauce]

If I were Bosch, Shimano, Spesh etc I would be VERY worried! Life time warranty is a massive on its own.

[petit_ecureuil_malin]

living in hills im still anti electric MTB but watching actors like ZF coming into the market with such approaches makes me think about it again tbh, just hope for the bike market prices to stabilize and get in a reasonable specter rather than getting as expensive as motorcycles or cars

[chrisjones]

Nothing that’s come out over the past two years has looked like next gen ebike tech…until now! This is the motor I’ve been waiting for! Please please tell them to make the controls minimal! They’ve got a killer product but it looks like a massive controller on the bars!

[hein_mcleod]

Really good approach to the motor design and the way it mounts. You can swop the motor out for a newer model if they stick with the same dimensions!

[verdi]

The industry should start to make a standardized mount

[klaymoon]

ZF, it looks like a ground breaking product! Would you please bring an integrated gear motor as well?

[Domane-mhwg]

Since ZF is a company that makes high performance automotive transmissions, I'm surprised they didn't go with an integrated gearbox unit. They would of had an upper hand on the Pinion MGU.