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Who Will Free EV Motors from the Rare Earth Monopoly?

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As the world builds more and more electric cars and trucks—and electrifies other modes of transit—a race is underway to build the ideal, mean-and-green motor. The goal is a traction motor that’s at least as powerful, reliable, and lightweight as today’s industry standard rare-earth permanent magnet synchronous motor.

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What is Tesla’s Mystery Magnet?

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And then, out of nowhere, came an absolute bombshell: “We have designed our next drive unit, which uses a permanent-magnet motor, to not use any rare-earth elements at all,” declared Colin Campbell , Tesla’s director of power train engineering. So if not rare-earth permanent magnets for Tesla’s next motor, then what kind?

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IEEE Honors Pioneering Engineers

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MADNI University of California, Los Angeles “For pioneering contributions to the development and commercialization of innovative sensing and systems technologies, and for distinguished research leadership.” Kumar Texas A&M University College Station “For seminal contributions to the modeling, analysis, and design of wireless networks.”

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A New Treatment for Arthritis: Vagus-Nerve Stimulation

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Although devices that harness electrical impulses are already widespread in medicine, these platforms all tap into neural circuits that directly impact diseased tissues; for example, deep-brain stimulators help with symptoms of Parkinson’s disease by hacking the brain’s motor control center. National Institutes of Health.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

Lyft Lyft offers rides on two wheels or four and tells you transit options as well If there was any question about the changing landscape, General Motors’ $500 million investment in the ride sharing company Lyft. as well as 600 universities throughout the country. However, the company pulled the plug on U.S. One million U.S.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

The bill, sponsored by Representative Frank Hornstein of Minneapolis, would require that the State of Minnesota begin buying PHEVs once they are commercially available and when the price is no more than 10% higher than similarly equipped vehicles.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

University of Manitoba by Hymotion, April 2007 (Winnipeg, Manitoba), contact eric_bibeau@umanitoba.ca Rybak of Minneapolis , 2007 Prius by Hymotion , Oct 2007 (Minneapolis, MN), contact sustainability@ci.minneapolis.mn.us. York University , Prius, Hymotion, November 2007 (Toronto, ON, Canada). Full size photo Mayor R.T.

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