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Confidence votes 24.7K. Technically, there is no difference between an engine and a motor. However, by common usage the term 'engine' is usually applied to heat engines (e.g. internal combustion engines, steam engines, etc.) whereas the term 'motor' is more-widely applied to electric machines. + 1 other found this useful.
One field is created by the rotor and one by the stator. The difference between motor types is in how these fields are created and controlled: EC motors use permanent magnets to create the rotor field, and a series of coils controlled by an electronic controller (or commutator) to create the stator field.