Did you know GM invented the domestic, affordable permanent magnet? Before this neodymium-iron-boron magnet came along in 1984, electric motors, generators, audio speakers, hard-disk drives, and the ...

Linear motors are becoming increasingly practical for general motion. Many are used for long strokes of a few feet or more. One new design, however, where the magnets move relative to a stationary ...

$5M Bengaluru team patents EV motor that needs zero expensive magnets Bengaluru-based Vimag Labs has secured its fifth patent in India for “A Robust Rotating Transformer Excited Synchronous Motor and ...

While electric vehicles certainly offer a host of eco-friendly advantages, they're not without some asterisks, one being the rare earth materials (and harmful mining thereof) used to make the magnets ...

China controls about 90% of the entire global supply of rare earth magnets, including their mining and refining. That means that most of the neodymium, dysprosium, and terbium that end up in EV motors ...

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It took 100 years to come to fruition, but this recently created fluid enables non-magnetic electrostatic-based motors. Say the word “motor” to most engineers and they almost always associate it with ...

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GM and Niron have teamed up to pry the EV motor material supply chain away from China. Did you know GM invented the domestic, affordable permanent magnet? Before this neodymium-iron-boron magnet came ...