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Faraday Future receives manufacturing equipment from Guangzhou MINO at Hanford plant

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In China, MINO provides BIW intelligent manufacturing lines for Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, Ford, Volkswagen, General Motors, Great Wall, Geely, GAC, SAIC, BAIC as well as other Chinese domestic and foreign automotive manufacturers, and exports products to the United States, Germany, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Malaysia and other countries.

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Nikkei: China boosts domestic rare earths quota by nearly 30%

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Although it is the world’s dominant producer of rare earths, China still imports the minerals from abroad—primarily from Myanmar, Malaysia and Vietnam. The quota for certain rare earths such as dysprosium, used to make magnets for EV motors, were raised by 20%. It announces a quota twice a year.

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Southeast Asia market will become a competitive place for Chinese and Japanese car companies

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Europe, the birthplace of the automobile industry, to North America across the Pacific Ocean, has always been the top stage that Chinese car companies hope to step on. With the current sales figures and the seductive future expectations, Southeast Asia has successfully attracted the attention of Chinese car companies.

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Qiantu inks deal with Mullen to tap US market, K50 supercar to be rebranded as Mullen GT and GTRS

CN EV Post

Qiantu Motors, which is almost forgotten in its home market of China, is partnering with an American electric vehicle (EV) maker to bring its electric supercar back to life. Qiantu recently signed a strategic partnership agreement with Mullen Automotive to expand into the Americas, according to a press release from the Chinese startup today.

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Texas Emerging Technology Fund awards KLD Energy Technologies $2.8M to support commercialization of electric drive system

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KLD), developers of high-performance electric motor technology ( earlier post ), was selected by the State of Texas to receive $2.8 KLD’s initial product is a complete motor system for electric vehicles. KLD’s motor works in tandem with its advanced electric motor controller and modular battery packs.

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Pensana plans $125M rare earth separation facility in England

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Lynas Corporation of Australia, currently the world’s largest non-Chinese producer, last year produced around 4,700 tonnes of magnet metal oxides from its facility in Malaysia. MP Materials is planning to produce around 6,000 tonnes of magnet metal oxides from 2023. China currently supplies 98% of Europe’s rare earth magnets.

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The Coming Boom in Rare Earths

Cars That Think

Perhaps most importantly, though, they’re essential components of the permanent magnets used in the motors of most electric vehicles and many appliances, and also in the generators in most wind turbines. So magnets go into motors. Those two alone are not sufficient because those kinds of motors run very hot, very quickly.

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