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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
One other thing to note is that Tesla has announced they are moving to reduce rare earth magnets in their drive chain to zero or near zero. That is another effort to remove reliance on Chinese supply chain as the biggest producer of REM in the world out of their equation. China controls the batteries needed to power the cars and the rare earth magnets needed for the motors of all EVs on the road today. Other manufacturers need to figure this out for themselves or they will just turn into resellers of Chinese technology.
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You mean like BMW? They already offer motors without rare earth magnets. This is why it's so difficult to have these discussions as too many people seem to think Tesla is the only manufacturer that can innovate when it comes to EV technology.
https://www.motortrend.com/news/bmw-...ech-deep-dive/