Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For several years, the automobile industry has grappled with a straightforward question: Is it possible to produce a powerful, efficient, and mass-producible synchronous motor that contains no rare-earth elements at all? GM isn’t the only automaker on a hunt for rare-earth-free permanent magnets.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). August 9, 2007 (Multiple reports on speech and press conference by GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz) Lutz said his goal is for GM to develop a plug in hybrid on sale by 2010. This is unusual. Bloomberg ).

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Cars That Think

JUNE 21, 2022

The two project leaders— Masato Sagawa of Sumitomo and John Croat of GM—surprised each other by announcing their results at the same conference in Pittsburgh in 1983. Masato Sagawa of Sumitomo (left) announced the invention of a revolutionary neodymium-iron-boron permanent magnet at a conference in Pittsburgh, Penn., in November, 1983.

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