Article content University of Windsor engineering professor Narayan Kar has received grants totalling $1.8 million for a three-year project aimed at developing cheaper, more powerful and robust electric motors and drive systems. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has awarded Kar more than $1 million. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Windsor professor lands $1.8 million for electric motor and drive train research Back to video The project will also include Canadian auto parts supplier Magna International, Ottawa-based power device company GaN Systems and a researcher at Concordia University. The companies will contribute more than $700,000 to the project.