It takes over two hundred chemical steps to extract the metals used in electric motors
Creating the powerful magnets found in electric vehicle motors requires a staggering sequence of over two hundred chemical steps to isolate rare earth metals from their raw ore.
The transition to green energy depends on 17 rare earth elements like neodymium, which provides the punch for EV motors. Extracting these metals is an incredibly complex task involving ion-exchange chromatography and solvent extraction to isolate impurities at the parts-per-million level.
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