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Question 6 of 21

What is it made of, and where do the materials come from?

A carbon-fiber rotor, a steel housing and neodymium magnets. The fiber will be sourced in the US; the magnets come from China today.

The full answer

The rotor is standard industrial-grade carbon fiber (T700 class) in epoxy, a widely produced material rather than an exotic one. For the US market, Qnetic intends to source both the carbon fiber and the resin in the United States. Those arrangements are being set up now, ahead of commercial production.

The rotor levitates on neodymium (NdFeB) permanent magnets, which today come from China. Qnetic takes that concentration seriously. Alternatives such as samarium-cobalt and higher-grade NdFeB, along with other suppliers, are being evaluated. No non-rare-earth magnet yet matches the strength and heat stability the design needs, so this is an open supply-chain problem rather than a solved one.

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