jack_christie
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A team of scientists has written to the Committee of Climate Change warning that if the UK’s 31.5 million cars are replaced by electric vehicles by 2050, as is currently planned by the Government, this will require almost twice the current annual global supply of cobalt.
The researchers have also calculated that based on the latest ‘811’ battery technology (80 per cent nickel, 10 per cent cobalt, 10 per cent manganese), UK demand for EV batteries will require almost the total amount of neodymium produced globally each year, three quarter’s of the world’s lithium, and “at least half” of the world’s copper.
https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-n...ll-require-twice-the-world-s-supply-of-cobalt
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/press-office/...ut-resource-challenge-of-meeting-net-zer.html