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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.

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  1. donald trump 2016 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    politicians are all talk no action. He is a businessman and will lead the us like a business. He will build a wall, to stop the crime from pouring into our country. And mexico is going to pay for it. He will be a president of the people. HE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

    TRUMP 2016.

  2. Re:Republicans raped me in Brazil by Darinbob · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.

  3. Re:Republicans raped me in Brazil by AK+Marc · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.

  4. Re:Republicans raped me in Brazil by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Confirmation bias. How often do you see stories in the mainstream media that paint the Republicans in a good light? After only seeing negative stories for a few decades, you come around to a biased point of view. It's like how nobody reports the virtuous deeds of Muslims, but you slice one clitoris off and the whole world freaks out. Likewise with African-Americans, the only media reports about them are when they commit crimes. This sort of thing works, sadly.

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    Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!