InfiniX, the Talk: What Was Actually Said on 18 July
On Saturday 18 July 2026, at Faraday Labs (La Ferrière, France), Christophe Tétard did what he’d promised: he showed, live and in person, in front of ATLAS members gathered on site, a motor that doesn’t brake like the others. Here’s what was actually said — so you can form your own opinion.
What he showed, in one sentence
Every electric motor brakes itself as it spins: that’s back-electromotive force (back-EMF), a rule almost two centuries old. Christophe Tétard claims to have designed an architecture, named InfiniX, that gets around it — not by reducing it, but by completely changing how the motor produces its force. The name isn’t accidental: he chose it in reference to the infinity symbol, and because he had just — quite literally — come out of a months-long coma. “Like a phoenix, I rise from my ashes.”
The full talk, filmed on site. (25 min)
The brake every electric motor has been dragging since 1831
A classic electric motor is simple: a current creates a magnetic field, that field pushes or pulls on magnets fixed to the spinning part (the rotor), and that produces movement. But the moment the rotor moves, an opposite phenomenon automatically kicks in — the motor turns, whether it wants to or not, into a small dynamo generating a current opposed to the one driving it. The faster it spins, the stronger this counter-current, and the more energy it takes just to hold the speed.
This phenomenon, described by Michael Faraday in 1831, isn’t a design flaw: it’s a direct consequence of energy conservation. The entire scientific consensus agrees on that. It’s this invisible brake, present in every electric motor today — cars, wind turbines, pumps, datacenters — that dissipates a significant share of the energy fed into them.
The InfiniX sleight of hand
What Christophe Tétard demonstrated comes down to two steps, explained and shown live with a motor opened up on the table:
- Make a magnet invisible, without breaking it. By winding a coil around a neodymium magnet and running the right current through it, the field created by the coil cancels out exactly with the magnet’s own field. From the outside, no magnetic field can be detected at that spot anymore — the magnet itself loses none of its properties: it’s reversible and instantaneous, the moment the current is cut.
- Open the circuit at exactly the right moment. Cancelling the field alone isn’t enough: as long as the circuit stays closed, a magnet moving nearby keeps inducing a voltage in the coil. The real trick is to literally break the circuit — not just stop the current. Once the circuit is truly open, the magnet’s natural field reappears instantly, and since a second magnet (on the fixed part) faces it in a repulsion configuration, the two magnets push each other apart. It’s no longer the current pushing the rotor — it’s two magnets dancing with each other.
Direct consequence: since the coil no longer generates the motion — the interaction between two permanent magnets does — there’s no back-electromotive force at that level anymore. On the table, Christophe Tétard first ran a classic motor — near-instant stop the moment the coil is short-circuited — then an InfiniX motor, without that braking effect.
A discovery, not a miracle
Christophe Tétard stressed this point several times: InfiniX does not claim to produce energy out of nothing, and does not violate any conservation law. What is claimed, precisely, is the absence of the classic internal brake — not the creation of energy. An energy surplus was indeed observed during testing (on the order of a few tens of watts), but a full, rigorous study of it remains, by his own admission, separate work still in progress.
His scientific paper was rejected by several traditional peer-reviewed journals — not on substance, but for lack of academic affiliation (what he calls “the Matthew effect”). So he chose to publish it in open access, with the full protocol, so that any lab, fablab or engineer can verify and reproduce it independently. A patent was filed (with the French INPI, dated 9 July 2026) — not on the physical principle itself (which cannot be patented), but on the system’s concrete applications, to keep a large corporation from claiming the technology before the community can get to it.
“It’s not for me to say where the energy surplus comes from. I observe that it’s there, I measure it — and I’m not the only one.”
— Christophe Tétard
Want the full picture?
To go further than the talk, we put together a 16-page guide, “InfiniX for Dummies”: the same explanations, in plain language, with everyday analogies and zero equations before chapter 10. And for anyone who wants to go all the way to the protocol, the formulas and the measurements: the full scientific publication, in French and English.
What’s next?
As promised, the event was filmed and a video of the reveal has been sent individually to every member. What comes next? More publications are already announced, along with a full test bench (linear and rotary motors). Christophe Tétard keeps repeating it: it’s no longer his move to make — it’s up to anyone who wants to reproduce the experiment and verify it themselves.
Weren’t with us on 18 July? You can find the original announcement here, and join us right now.
See also
To place this talk within a broader body of work: a testimonial, and a glimpse of Christophe Tétard’s other projects.
Testimony of a physics doctor
Christophe Tétard’s other projects
InfiniX isn’t an isolated one-off: Christophe Tétard has spent 22 years working on permanent-magnet motors and pulsed coil winding. A glimpse of his other projects:
— Christophe Tétard, inventor of the InfiniX motor
