University in Tokyo comes up with non-rare earth metal electric motor [w/video]

Posted by Suub | August 19, 2011 .

While electric cars save the environment, they cost a lot because their motors make use of rare metals. Recently, a research team led by Nobukazu Hoshi of a university in Tokyo specializing in the sciences created an electric motor that doesn’t depend on any rare metals for it to run. Instead of using rare Earth [...]