Magnets, typically using rare earth metals like neodymium, are found at the heart of most electric vehicle motors. It's nice to have a permanent source of powerful rare earth magnetism in your rotor, ...

There’s a long-circulating meme on the internet that is basically a question: Would a magnet-propelled vehicle work? (Here’s a version of it posted on Reddit.) It’s a very simple drawing of a pickup ...

General Motors has been granted a patent for a method to create a three-dimensional part with localized magnetic properties. The process involves forming a part with a cavity, inserting a permanent ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Niron Magnetics, the company that has developed the world’s first advanced manufacturing process for the mass production of high performance, rare-earth free permanent ...

The electric motors that power today’s EVs rely on permanent magnets made using rare-earth metals such as neodymium. Rare earths are the 15 elements whose atomic numbers run from 57 to 71, plus ...

Automaker Nissan Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. and Waseda University in Japan say they have started testing a jointly developed recycling process to recover rare-earth compounds from electrified vehicle motor ...

The president made the comment while discussing how every day products such as vehicles and computers require magnets to operate, and to support his administration's threat of high tariffs on goods ...