{"id":111004,"date":"2020-08-07T16:58:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T23:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/bentley-is-developing-high-performance-electric-motors-that-use-no-rare-earth-magnets"},"modified":"2020-08-07T16:58:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T23:58:13","slug":"bentley-is-developing-high-performance-electric-motors-that-use-no-rare-earth-magnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/bentley-is-developing-high-performance-electric-motors-that-use-no-rare-earth-magnets","title":{"rendered":"Bentley Is Developing High-Performance Electric Motors That Use No Rare-Earth Magnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bentley-is-developing-high-performance-electric-motors-that-use-no-rare-earth-magnets3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Developed in the 1970s, rare-earth magnets are the strongest type of permanent magnets made today. The more common type are neodymium alloys made with iron and boron, while the other group is samarium-cobalt magnets. The occurrence and production of these chemical elements raise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/news\/32358\/we-have-to-fix-the-cobalt-problem-for-ev-sales-to-keep-growing\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">both political and environmental concerns<\/a>, so to find a more sustainable solution, the UK\u2019s Office of Low Emission Vehicles is funding a nine-partner study called OCTOPUS (Optimised Components, Test and simulatiOn, toolkits for Powertrains which integrate Ultra high-speed motor Solutions). With Bentley joining for the next three years, the program will aim for real-world applications by 2026. Coincidentally, Bentley\u2019s first full EV is also due that year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developed in the 1970s, rare-earth magnets are the strongest type of permanent magnets made today. The more common type are neodymium alloys made with iron and boron, while the other group is samarium-cobalt magnets. The occurrence and production of these chemical elements raise both political and environmental concerns, so to find a more sustainable solution, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}