24 October 2025 A UK electric motor developer has secured a seven-figure contract from “a global tier one company” to develop rare-earth-free motors for high-volume passenger car applications. Read More
17 October 2025 Niron Magnetics, the US developer of rare-earth-free magnets, is collaborating with the automotive giant Stellantis to develop a new generation of electric motor… Read More
19 September 2025 A US company that has developed a technology for manufacturing powerful rare-earth-free magnets, has licensed a portfolio of patents for variable-flux motors (VFMs) which, it… Read More
25 June 2024 A UK start-up has used AI (artificial intelligence) to design and create a new rare-earth-free permanent magnet material that, it claims, can be produced at… Read More
10 June 2024 ABB claims to be the first motor manufacturer to have achieved IE6 levels of efficiency from a synchronous reluctance motor (SynRM) motor without needing… Read More
4 September 2023 The German automotive technology supplier ZF has developed an electric motor which needs no magnets but is claimed to deliver a similar performance to permanent-magnet… Read More
1 August 2022 A UK wind turbine specialist has teamed up with a US developer of high-performance rare-earth-free magnets to design a 15MW generator for use in offshore… Read More
26 July 2022 UK-based Motion Control Products (MCP) has announced what it claims are the first linear motors that do not have any magnets in their tracks, thus… Read More
9 September 2021 The car-maker Nissan has tied up with researchers at a Japanese university to develop a process for recovering rare-earth materials from electric motor magnets. They… Read More
11 February 2021 UK engineers have used robots to cut the time it takes to place powerful magnets in electrical generators from one hour to just 55 seconds. Read More
