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 ...
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 ...
Person wearing lab coat, safety goggles, and gloves holds a piece of black paper held by metal clamps Postdoctoral researcher Shichen Xu examines the carbon paper platform that holds powdered magnet ...
It’s not news that the automotive industry’s shift toward electrification is a huge technical challenge. However, the electrification itself represents just one part of a complex puzzle for the ...