China controls about 90% of the entire global supply of rare earth magnets, including their mining and refining. That means that most of the neodymium, dysprosium, and terbium that end up in EV motors ...

A handful of engineers who worked at Lucid Motors and on Apple's electric car project have launched a new startup that puts a fresh spin on electric hub motors. The new startup, called Conifer, has ...

What if there were a way for the world to break its dependence on China’s rare earths, which the country has repeatedly used as a way to retaliate during trade wars? That’s the promise of new kinds of ...

April 2, 2025 — Bhaktha Keshavachar remembers it all too well. “That was the day President Trump slapped import duties on key trading partners, from Canada to China,” recalls the founder and CEO of ...