{"id":645478,"date":"2025-09-10T09:22:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T03:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=645478"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:38:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:08:53","slug":"india-revs-up-alternate-ev-motor-tests-as-china-curbs-rare-earths-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-revs-up-alternate-ev-motor-tests-as-china-curbs-rare-earths-exports\/","title":{"rendered":"India revs up alternate EV motor tests as China curbs rare earths exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a 3,500 square foot laboratory in Faridabad, northern India, engineers are fast-tracking tests on an EV motor that could help alleviate one of New Delhi&#8217;s most pressing trade and diplomatic challenges: its reliance on China for rare earths.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike regular EV motors, the one being tested by Sterling Gtake E-Mobility does not use rare-earth magnets &#8211; a technology that, while not new, is uncommon and could be transformative for the world&#8217;s No. 3 car market that has been hit harder than most by China&#8217;s export curbs on the critical minerals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a 3,500 square foot laboratory in Faridabad, northern India, engineers are fast-tracking tests on an EV motor that could help alleviate one of New Delhi&#8217;s most pressing trade and diplomatic challenges: its reliance on China for rare earths. Unlike regular EV motors, the one being tested by Sterling Gtake E-Mobility does not use rare-earth magnets &#8211; a technology that, while not new, is uncommon and could be transformative for the world&#8217;s No. 3 car market that has been hit harder than most by China&#8217;s export curbs on the critical minerals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}