Explore how Vimag Labs' 'virtual magnet' technology could transform EV motors amid rising rare-earth export challenges.

Several companies around the globe have been hard at work innovating and refining magnet-free electric motors to make them a more viable option for the fast-growing EV industry. ZF Friedrichshafen has ...

While electric vehicles certainly offer a host of eco-friendly advantages, they're not without some asterisks, one being the rare earth materials (and harmful mining thereof) used to make the magnets ...

Vimag Labs has developed a magnet-free electric motor that aims to reduce India's dependence on China's rare earth minerals, offering an alternative for the country's growing electric vehicle industry ...

Did you know GM invented the domestic, affordable permanent magnet? Before this neodymium-iron-boron magnet came along in 1984, electric motors, generators, audio speakers, hard-disk drives, and the ...

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 ...

In ferroelectric fluids, a simple electric voltage triggers a spectacular movement, capable of opposing gravity and paving the way for motors without magnets or rare metals. The team from the ...

Toachieve systems design goals, where motors are involved, of increasedefficiency and improved power density, along with lower noise and variablespeed operating capability, technologies beyond ...