LONDON (Reuters) - Tesla's shift to a magnetic motor using neodymium in its Model 3 Long Range car adds to pressure on already strained supplies of a rare earth metal that had for years been shunned ...

FILE PHOTO: A Tesla Model 3 is seen in a showroom in Los Angeles, California U.S. January 12, 2018. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo ...

The switch to a neodymium-intensive permanent magnet motor in a volume model like the Model 3 has some worried about long-term supply issues. Kyle Hyatt (he/him/his) hails originally from the Pacific ...

TOKYO -- Japanese metal maker Proterial has developed a prototype motor for electric vehicles that uses magnets that do not contain the rare-earth metal neodymium.

(This story has been corrected year in paragraph 7, removes reference to Spectrum Rare Earths in paragraph 19) By Pratima Desai LONDON (Reuters) - Tesla's shift to a magnetic motor using neodymium in ...

(This version of the March 12 story corrects year in paragraph 7, removes reference to Spectrum Rare Earths in paragraph 19) By Pratima Desai LONDON (Reuters) - Tesla's shift to a magnetic motor using ...