Comments on: Siemens Heads Group Researching Cannibalization of Old Electric Motors to Build New Ones

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[…] the ground and refine. China has the monopoly on that market for the moment, prompting Siemens to start a research project last year to recycle old electric motors. Now, Honda wants in on the […]

By: Nicholas Brown

Nicholas Brown — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:30:00 +0000

You should have pointed out that rare earth metals are not necessary for electric vehicle motors. Remember induction motors. Rare earth materials are used to make strong permanent magnets, which are unnecessary. Induction motors, which don’t use magnets, will take over.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:35:00 +0000

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By: muchos huevos

muchos huevos — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:53:00 +0000

Great idea, good way of renewing the old motors to reuse the their goodies
and save the rare earth metals for other stuff, while reducing their demand.