Electric Cars and Wind Turbines
Spomenka Kobe, Marko Soderznik, Boris Saje
Transactions on Machine Design, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2019.
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Link: http://www.dline.info/tmd/fulltext/v7n2/tmdv7n2_1.pdf
Abstract:
The group of experts at Jozef Stefan Institute, the Department for Nanostructured materials has many yearsâ€™ experience in the field of permanent magnets for high energy applications such as electric vehicles and wind turbines. The author of this contribution is the Coordinator of 4 mio EUR European project on this subject. For electric vehicles and wind turbines only the magnets with highest energy products are appropriate and this is enabled with the addition of 11 wt.% of heavy rare earth (Dy, Tb), which are on the top of the list of critical raw materials (published by EC in 2014). With highly innovative process we decreased the amount of heavy rare earth to 0.6 wt. % for better performances and substantial savings on critical raw materials. Small wind turbines next to the smart house or in a small smart settlement would bring renewable energy and contribute to the environment TP E(E.2), Electric/hybrid vehicles would contribute to clean transportation in smart cities.