The switch to a neodymium-intensive permanent magnet motor in a volume model like the Model 3 has some worried about long-term supply issues. Kyle Hyatt (he/him/his) hails originally from the Pacific ...

The Trump administration invested a lot of time during 2025 trying to set up deals to establish rare-earth supply chains that ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Tesla's shift to a magnetic motor using neodymium in its Model 3 Long Range car adds to pressure on already strained supplies of a rare earth metal that had for years been shunned ...

Automakers and aerospace firms are accelerating rare-earth-free motor designs as dependence on neodymium becomes a liability.

Toyota says it has invented a new magnet for high-energy applications like electric motors that uses a fraction of the amount of neodymium (a rare-earth element) of a standard iron, boron, neodymium ...

Tesla’s shift to a magnetic motor using neodymium in its Model 3 Long Range car adds to pressure on already strained supplies of a rare earth metal that had for years been shunned because of an export ...

LONDON, March 12 (Reuters) - Tesla's shift to a magneticmotor using neodymium in its Model 3 Long Range car adds topressure on already strained supplies of a rare earth metal thathad for years been ...

LONDON, March 12 (Reuters) - Tesla's shift to a magneticmotor using neodymium in its Model 3 Long Range car adds topressure on already strained supplies of a rare earth metal thathad for years been ...

(This version of the March 12 story corrects year in paragraph 7, removes reference to Spectrum Rare Earths in paragraph 19) By Pratima Desai LONDON (Reuters) - Tesla's shift to a magnetic motor using ...