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Cobalt: the crisis facing electric vehicles

08.22.2018 - By Financial TimesPlay

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Electric cars are the future, and so are the batteries that power them. Yet, these batteries are dependent on cobalt, which has linked the electric vehicle industry to one of the most unstable countries in the world, and to practices like child labour. This, along with the metal’s high cost, has started a race to replace cobalt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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