A few weeks ago, Tesla made several announcements during Investor Day. Unfortunately follow the set novelty, you had to stay up most of it night.

Don’t worry, we will discuss one of them big announcements from 2023: a new permanent magnet motor containing no no rare earths.

What is a rare earth?

What does Tesla call rare earths? It’s here an important argument anti-VE people. Considered worries at the level of production and their supply.

In general, we find these rare earths in the engines of electric cars, and not in Accumulators.

This applies, for example, to neodymium. On the other hand, this does not count anything that is lithium or cobalt.

Also note that thermal machines and hybrids also include rare earth elements, but with smaller amounts.

Model 3 can drive more than a mile on the energy needed to boil a pot of water for pasta 🍝 pic.twitter.com/F2A8AwPVZt

—Tesla (@Tesla) March 17, 2023

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Therefore, the American manufacturer Tesla hopes to completely separate from these rare earth elements in the production of its next engine.

Note only between 2017 and 2022the amount of rare earth elements in the production process has already been reduced for a quarter

Finally, we remind you that Tesla has already been eradicated rare earths with vehicles like Model S, Model X. However, she did Choice put Model 3 into production.

Catalog without rare earth elements

What for positive moments stop using rare earth elements? First, Tesla could crash production costs.

But that’s not all, because American manufacturer can increase the efficiency of its engines. That said, Tesla still has to give details of these engines without rare earth elements.

The only information we know that the entire Tesla catalog is planned to be released without it rare earth