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 exclusive interview given to NEXUS magazine.

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:

1. 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.
2. 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.

What this would change, if confirmed, explained simply

The societal implications of InfiniX technology, without the technical jargon.

The basic idea, in one sentence

Today, every electric motor in the world — from an electric car to a desk fan — wastes some of its electricity because of a physical phenomenon that can’t be avoided (the famous “invisible brake”). If InfiniX works as described, that waste disappears. A motor that loses less energy is a motor that does more with less.

A concrete example: an electric car, like an Infiniti SUV

Take a high-end electric SUV, like those from the Infiniti brand (for illustration only, not an actual partnership). Today, a good share of the battery’s energy is simply lost to this internal motor brake, especially at highway speed. If an InfiniX motor replaced the conventional motor:

• The car would go further on the same battery (more range, without a bigger or heavier battery)
• Or, for the same range, the battery could be smaller and cheaper, with fewer rare metals inside (less cobalt, less lithium to mine)
• The car would heat up less while driving, so it would need less cooling, making it simpler and cheaper to build

In everyone’s home

A refrigerator, a washing machine, a fan, a water pump — all of these have a small electric motor inside that suffers from the same problem. An InfiniX motor in these appliances would mean a lower electricity bill, without changing anything else at home.

In industry

Factories run thousands of large electric motors (conveyors, pumps, compressors) that sometimes operate 24/7. Even a small percentage of energy savings, multiplied by thousands of motors running non-stop, adds up to enormous sums saved — and therefore cheaper products to manufacture.

In countries short on electricity

In some parts of the world, electricity is scarce, expensive, or rationed. A water pump or small generator that wastes less energy could run essential equipment (pumping drinking water, refrigerating vaccines) with smaller, cheaper solar panels — making these technologies accessible to populations that don’t have them today.

On the environment

Less energy wasted means, for the same use, less electricity needing to be produced — so potentially fewer coal or gas power plants needed somewhere in the world, since less has to be produced for the same result.

On ambient energy and the observed surplus

The researchers’ working hypothesis is that the observed energy gain comes from an exchange with the ambient energy of the environment — a principle already known and used, for example, in heat pumps or solar panels. Doctors who examined the protocol confirmed the absence of a measurement artifact; the precise explanation of the phenomenon is still under study.

The process that would, in theory, allow a form of self-sufficiency

Here is the reasoning, step by step, to understand the logic — without claiming it is validated today.

Step 1 — Today, energy comes only from the outside. A conventional motor consumes electricity from the grid or a battery, period. All the energy that comes out (the motion) comes entirely from the energy that goes in.

Step 2 — If a real surplus exists, it has to come from somewhere. The measurements mentioned above suggest an energy surplus at the output compared to the electrical energy injected. If this surplus is confirmed, physics requires that it come from a source: under the current working hypothesis, an exchange with the ambient energy of the environment (much like a heat pump draws from outside air, or a solar panel from light).

Step 3 — Redirect part of the output back to the input. If this surplus is large and stable enough, one could imagine, technically, drawing part of it off to power the motor itself instead of outside electricity — much like a solar water heater uses part of its own captured energy to run its circulation pump.

Step 4 — If the loop’s balance stays positive, dependence on the grid decreases. If, once this loop is in place, the system keeps capturing more ambient energy than it consumes to run, the amount of outside electricity needed would progressively decrease — until, in theory, none is needed at all, the environment continuously supplying what the internal loop doesn’t.

What this explanation is, and what it isn’t

This is a hypothetical logical chain, explaining how such a system would be physically possible if every step is confirmed. It is not a description of a device that exists or has been tested in closed loop to date. Each step of this reasoning still needs to be demonstrated independently, in particular the stability and reproducibility of the energy surplus over time.

The important “but,” never to be forgotten

An outside look at the discovery, from the YouTube channel “Énergie Libre & Bobines Tesla.”

A follow-up explainer video, from the same channel.

See also

To place this talk within a broader body of work: a glimpse of Christophe Tétard’s other projects.

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