The True Cost Of Mining Electric Car Battery Metals | True Cost | Insider News [Video]

Your average EV has six times more mineral content than a petrol or diesel-powered vehicle – and all those metals need to be dug, scraped, blasted, or leached out of the earth. There is massive demand for batteries as countries eye up ambitious zero emissions targets. But what’s the cost?

Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
00:59 – Minerals Found In EVs
02:01 – Lithium Mining In The World’s Driest Desert
04:45 – New Lithium Mining Technology in Bolivia
06:39 – Copper Mining Impacts
07:44 – Toxic Lake At Former Copper Mine
09:36 – Cobalt Mining In The Democratic Republic of Congo
10:51 – Inside A Cobalt Miner’s Tunnel
12:46 – Child Labor At Cobalt Mines
13:19 – Expanding Industrial Cobalt Mines
14:48 – History Of Extraction In The DRC
15:44 – Understanding “The Resource Curse”
16:31 – Indonesia’s Nickel Dominance
17:34 – Farmers & Fishermen Impacted By Nickel Mining
18:58 – Environmental Impacts Of Nickel Mining
20:47 – Manganese Mining In Gabon
21:56 – The Company Mining The Deep Sea
22:56 – How Deep Sea Mining Works
24:06 – Environmental Impacts Of Deep Sea Mining
26:15 – Chinese Graphite Dominance
26:56 – Graphite Mining In Sri Lanka
29:39 – EVs vs. Combustion Engine Vehicles
30:59 – How Much Can Recycling Help?
32:49 – Conclusion
33:10 – Credits

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