5 ways to make the electric vehicle battery more sustainable
2021年5月3日 · Nevada-based Redwood Materials aims to become the world’s top battery recycling company. It also hopes to create a circular or ‘closed loop’ supply chain by retrieving, recycling and recirculating raw materials such as cobalt, copper and nickel from end-of …
The dirty secret of electric vehicles | World Economic Forum
2019年3月27日 · Battery manufacture now accounts for 60% of the 125,000 tonnes of cobalt mined globally each year. A move last year by the London Metal Exchange to ban the sale of tainted cobalt was opposed by a consortium of 14 NGOs, including Amnesty, on the grounds it would simply drive the trade underground.
How to build more sustainable global battery value chains
2023年6月27日 · Cobalt-based battery chemistries typically provide the best performance quality, driving up demand. However, cobalt’s production is often associated with issues such as child labour – particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which supplies about 70% of the world’s cobalt and almost all battery-grade cobalt, with an ...
Deep-sea minerals could meet the demands of battery supply …
2020年8月3日 · Demand for cobalt, and other metals for batteries used in mobile electronics and electric vehicles, is forecasted to dramatically increase. A potential new source of minerals from the deep-sea could enter battery supply chains in under a decade.
The hidden cost of the electric car boom – child labour
2018年9月24日 · As a critical raw material in lithium-ion battery production, cobalt is in high demand. It is needed to power smartphones, tablets, and laptops as well as electric vehicles, but it is the latter where astronomical growth risks perpetuating misery.
4 ways to bridge the battery industry's cooperation gap
2024年6月25日 · To meet COP28 targets of tripling renewable energy capacity by 2030, we need the global battery industry for electric vehicles and energy storage to grow 17-fold by 2030. In that effort, we need more international cooperation to address the supply, financing and sustainability gaps in critical battery minerals.
How to overhaul mining and build an ethical battery | World …
2020年1月10日 · The Global Battery Alliance's new guiding principles are designed to help effect major change. But for this commitment to improve the lives of tens of thousands of children, men and women who mine cobalt in the DRC, investments must include resourcing local justice officials to provide protection from exploitation and abuse.
has the world got enough lithium? - The World Economic Forum
2022年7月20日 · Dividing lithium production by the amount needed per battery shows that enough lithium was mined last year to make just under 11.4 million EV batteries. This is a level that annual electric vehicle purchases could hit soon, after first-quarter sales rose by 75% on the year to touch 2 million, according to IEA figures.
There's a dark secret powering your smartphone
2017年9月19日 · The battery powering your phone is built partly of the backs of Congolese children working illegally in cobalt mines. The Global Battery Alliance aims to put an end to this exploitation by building a truly sustainable global battery value supply chain
Global boom in electric vehicles will strain mineral supply
2021年6月25日 · In the IEA’s 2021 sustainable development scenario of critical minerals, 80% of battery storage in 2040 would be used in light-duty electric vehicles, and this will require a 40-fold increase in the production of lithium and nickel and more than 20 times as much as copper, graphite and cobalt compared with 2020 levels.