How to Use permanent magnet in a Sentence
permanent magnet
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The bump in power is due to use of stronger permanent magnets in the motor with improved heat management.
—Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 3 June 2023
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The first is with a permanent magnet, like those things that stick to your refrigerator door.
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 31 Dec. 2021
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There's a new permanent magnet motor and a silicon-carbide inverter, and now the motor drives the rear wheels, not the fronts.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2023
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There is a total of three permanent magnet electric motors—one powering the front axle and a pair at the rear, each driving its own wheel.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Oct. 2020
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The translator is a long, straight tube with an array of neodymium permanent magnets attached to the perimeter, near the center.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2023
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In a sample of pure iron, the atoms would all align magnetically in the same direction and make a permanent magnet.
—Melanie Fine, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
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In newer motors the usual order of things is reversed, with the windings held in the stator and the rotor sporting permanent magnets.
—The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
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The standard permanent magnet used in EV motors, neodymium iron boron, has a κ of 1.54, according to this table.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2023
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Front-drive variants get a permanent magnet motor with 212-hp which should be sufficient for the smaller Equinox.
—Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
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This changing magnetic field can push and pull on the magnetic field of a nearby magnet (called the permanent magnet).
—Ben Finio, Scientific American, 5 Dec. 2019
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That’s what a permanent magnet is — a bunch of little superconducting loops, one in each atom.
—Sumeet Kulkarni, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2022
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Passing a current through these wires generates a strong magnetic field, which interacts with the permanent magnets on the rotor to spin the drum around and drive the motor.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2023
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Both front and rear motors use permanent magnets, and like Porsche, Ford has gone for a rectangular hairpin design for the coils that packs more copper and less air inside.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2019
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In the case of a ferromagnet, or permanent magnet, those compass needles remain aligned even after the magnetic field is turned off.
—Andy Berger, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2015
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On either side of the battery pack is a synchronous permanent magnet electric motor.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 14 June 2018
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In modern cell phones, neodymium is a key ingredient in the wafer-thin permanent magnet that converts electric signals to sound waves in speakers and headsets.
—Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2011
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Magnetic fields can be produced by permanent magnets or by electric currents passing through bundles of wires wrapped around an iron core.
—The Economist, 22 Apr. 2018
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Rawlinson said that the Air has also moved to a new in-house silicon carbide inverter, as well as a switch from induction to permanent magnet motors front and rear.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 June 2020
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One high-stakes arena that could shape the trajectory of the global climate economy is the rare earth permanent magnet industry.
—Mary Hui, Quartz, 14 May 2021
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In permanent magnet motors, magnets attached to the edge of a spinning rotor produce a magnetic field that is attracted to the opposite poles on the spinning field.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2022
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Regardless of their shape and size, permanent magnets are everywhere.
—Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
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On the road, the combination of internal combustion, permanent magnets, and six-speed dual clutch gearbox work well.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2018
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But unpaired 3d electrons aren’t quite enough for a really strong and practical permanent magnet.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2023
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China also aims to use the minerals to produce its own versions of permanent magnets and electric vehicles.
—Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2019
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The problem with small permanent magnets is that the magnetic field fluctuates with small temperature changes.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Aug. 2014
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Both use permanent magnets embedded in their rotors and both need inverters.
—The Economist, 22 Apr. 2018
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Coils of superconductor could replace permanent magnets to achieve those goals.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2019
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This in many ways is simpler and offers many advantages over the induction and permanent magnet motors currently in the electric vehicles.
—David Blekhman, Forbes, 6 July 2022
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At Tesla’s investor day this week, the electric vehicle maker announced its next generation of permanent magnet motors would no longer use rare earths.
—Mary Hui, Quartz, 3 Mar. 2023
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For all-wheel-drive Priuses, Toyota adds a high-output permanent magnet electric motor to the rear axle, bumping total powertrain output to 196 horsepower.
—Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 17 Nov. 2022
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