Method of manufacturing an axial flux motor

A method of manufacturing an axial flux motor, said method comprising:

• providing a stator;
• providing a rotor having a first external face and a second external face opposed and parallel to the first external face;
• rotatably securing the rotor to the stator about a rotor center of rotation;
• providing a plurality of magnetizable permanent magnets that each include a longitudinal axis thereof;
• fixedly securing each magnetizable permanent magnet to the rotor with the each longitudinal axis positioned in a radial direction relative to the rotor center of rotation and so defining a radially inward surface and an opposed radially outward surface of each of the plurality of magnetizable permanent magnets, each of the plurality of the magnetizable permanent magnets having a first face adjacent the first external face of the rotor and having a second face adjacent the second external face of the rotor;
• partially magnetizing the magnetizable permanent magnet by positioning a first magnetizing device (408) adjacent the first face (40) of each of the plurality of magnetizable permanent magnets;
• and
• further magnetizing the magnetizable permanent magnet by positioning a second magnetizing device (409) adjacent the second face (41) of each of the plurality of magnetizable permanent magnets.