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Honda Unveils First Hybrid Motor Without Heavy Rare Earth Metals (engadget.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Honda has unveiled its new hybrid motor this week that doesn't use heavy rare earth metals like dysprosium and terbium -- though it still does contain neodymium. The motor was co-developed alongside Daido Steel and will use their magnets in replace of the rare earth metals because they cost 10 percent less and weigh 8 percent less. Honda is the first automaker to develop a hybrid motor that doesn't use heavy rare earth metals. The company says the new engines will reduce its reliance on the metals that are primarily supplied by China. They're expected to make their debut in the compact Freed minivan this fall, a vehicle that is already on the road in Asia.
The party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Eisenhower is not the same political party as the party of Helms, Gingrich, and Reagan. The party that freed the slaves versus Nixon's "southern strategy" party that wooed the segregationists.
Eisenhower was a good Republican. People refer to his warning about the military industrial complex (MIC), like Washington's warning about political parties. The reference in Eisenhower's farewell wasn't a warning. It was an apology. And Republicans ever since did the same thing, growing the MIC, at the expense of liberty and fiscal responsibility. Eisenhower looks like the first of the modern Republicans. Do as I say, not as I do, and starting the MIC.
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