More specifically, as shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B, the rotor 24 is rotatable about a drive axis 26 as shown by the rotational arrow 27. In some embodiments (not shown), the rotor 24 may be coupled to motor output shaft to provide torque to a load, such as to rotate a wheel of a vehicle. The stator 25 has a plurality of stator windings 28 wound around stator poles 29, which are radially spaced apart from one another about a central axis 30 parallel to the drive axis 26. FIGS. 1A and 1B show a particular embodiment including twelve stator poles 29, each having a stator windings 28 associated with one of three electrical phases (A, B, C). However, the electric motor 22 may have a different number of stator poles 29 and/or a different number and/or configuration of electrical phases (A, B, C). In some embodiments, the stator windings 28 are formed by winding a wire around each of the stator poles 29, as shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B. However, the stator windings 28 may take other forms such as I-pin or hair-pin type bar windings. In some embodiments, and as shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B, the stator windings 28 are each associated with a single one of the stator poles 29. However, each of the stator windings 28 may be operatively coupled to two or more of the stator poles 29. For example, each of the stator windings 28 may wind around two or more of the stator poles 29. Furthermore, in some embodiments, two or more of the stator windings 28 may be wound around one of the stator poles 29.