TB power motors at Nuremburg 2012

[florianz]

the homepage of tp power doesn't work, unfortunately. I have seen these motors on KD, and I am waiting for some detail pics.

Regarding neodym, it's sources are mainly found in China. so they aren't stealing nothing from somebody else. Probably other countries are jealous... what they did in the last year was, that they have increased the prices for neodym dramatically. But I guess 90 % of all Neodym is found in China. And about all BL-Motors have their Neodym. Still, there are a few manufacturers for that metal, and there are quite a lot of differend blends. from strong but not very stable reg. heat to less strong, but robust reg. heat, and so on. Need some rare earth magnets?
http://www.permanentmagnet.com/neodymium_sintered.html

As most of the metal is found in china, Bosch has already a new Motor in progress, which is working without neodym. Like that, future electric cars are independend of that metal.
Also Lithium does mainly come from China, and most manufacturer of Lithium-Cells are found in China, further in Taiwan, US (A123, they are in Asia, too) and Canada (Molicell).

who will by one of these motors?