>>China is the real threat.. Riiiiiight. Just like Scotland is a "threat" to the bagpipe industry since they make most of the bagpipes...
We have just as much Neodymium here, we just choose not to manufacture it. Neodymium is just as plentiful as copper. Some OEM's likely use less efficient and less powerful induction motors based on price, not ethics. Others, wanting the best motor, use magnets. On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Bruce EVangel Parmenter < [email protected]> wrote: > There are several good hits that come up if you use a search engine > using the key words recycle Neodymium > > I have read several newswires on recycling rare earths in the past. > Because of the lack of evdl reader interest, I do not post many of > these, but a search of the archive has a few: > > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=recycle+rare+motor&days=0&sort=date > > It is feasible to recycle those rare earth metals and it will be done > because of the limited supply on earth, but it will not be cheap on a > small scale. Items with rare earth metals are not just EV components. > They are used in several products, including hard disc drives. These > items are being separated and stored, so that the recycling can be done > on a larger scale. > > Toyota along with other Japanese Automakers have reduced their use of > rare earth metals in their hybrid, pih and EV components, while > recycling as much as they can, and are still working on eliminating the > death grip China has on the supply (there is contention between China > and Japan over many things, and long held bad-memories from the past). > > China is the real threat, not the way-too-obvious negative/anti-plugin > media outlets. Some pro-plugin media outlets are now putting out > newswires attacking how wrong/hidden-agenda those anti-plugin media > outlets are (plugin wars if you will). > > > {brucedp.150m.com} > > > > - > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013, at 07:18 AM, Lawrence Rhodes wrote: > > Can anyone tell me if recycling the rare earth metals in electric > > vehicles (like > > Neodymium) is a hazard or unfeasible? Could anti EV forces use this > > against the > > use or manufacture of electric vehicles. Lawrence Rhodes > - > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- Marcus Reddish *North Valley Systems LLC* Stevensville, Montana 406-360-8628 northvalleyev.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130325/a6a5d3dd/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
