Where 6 Metals Used For Electric Cars Come From | True Cost | Insider News Marathon

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 Chile And Bolivia
06:39 - Copper Mining
09:36 - Cobalt Mining In The Democratic Republic of Congo
16:31 - Nickel Mining In Indonesia
20:47 - Manganese Mining In Gabon
21:56 - Deep Sea Mining
26:56 - Graphite Mining In Sri Lanka
29:39 - EVs vs. Combustion Engine Vehicles
30:59 - Battery Recycling
32:49 - Conclusion

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[fartywood]

'Artisanal Mining' is one of the best "spins" I have ever come across.

[drseo]

In minute @6:00 the guy says "que vengan ascinerando" which you translated roughly to "they should come to us with dialogue". That's not a bad translation but the language he uses expresses decades of frustration with companies that have rejected the dialogue previously.

[roberthodge]

A copper mine in northern Arizona leaches into the local stream; the fish cannot be eaten as they are toxic. Birds and goats will die if they drink much of it.

[ericolander]

One thing this report leaves out is all the equipment used to mine and process are combustion engines and coal produced power plants. And it is coat prohibited to change any of this.

[karlpeterson]

In the end, nothing is done without costs. For any situation, there are no solutions, only tradeoffs.

[reachthesingularity]

That water looks so refreshing and tasty 😩

[armegeddon]

How fresh Mountain Dew is mined for our refreshment.

[rossbabcock]

Save the climate by destroying the earth. Great thinking.

[MaxB]

Old copper telephone cables can be replaced by optical fiber and the copper can be recycled.

[TB-upxi]

People often complain about lithium mines and damaging the Earth but the ratio of the area covered by lithium mines vs coal mines is the same as the the ratio of the state of Delaware to all of Canada, the USA and 1/2 of Mexico combined.

[situationalawarenes]

Imagine someone would find polymetals in Washington and would extract them and blow tons of dust per hour all over the city. What do you think, would that impact the local species ?

[mondotv]

Now wasn't that defunct copper mine there before EVs were even mass produced?

[navret]

Apparently a new and profitable source of CU is the charging stations. Thieves are cutting off the charging cables for the CU.

[SirHackaLt.]

Which other industry uses cobalt?
The Oil industry to remove the sulphur from petrol. Vast quantities of it.

[via]

That sea floor mowing is a ecological death sentence. Especially if it's scaled up, trowling already devastated so many habitats.

[Nemesis]

About the extinction of the polymetallic fields, would it not be possible to work inward from the edges, drop less valuable stones (maybe leftovers from quarries) in the sectors that have already been mined, and then wait for silts to settle and animals to migrate to the new stone fields before continuing to mine? It’s not a perfect solution but loss of habitat can probably be mitigated by providing new habitats elsewhere while we harvest the stuff useful to us. If the polymetallics are also being utilized by the ecosystems as a nutrient, the miners could just yeet a certain percentage over the edge to help reseed the new environments.

This is far from a perfect solution and I would like to hear some other peoples’ thoughts on the matter. Always good to learn.

[danners]

One of these days people will realise that there simply is no perfect solution for mechanised individual transport… we really need to look more at improving public transit and active travel, while retaining the second-best option (cars) for those without access, such as rural populations

[KrawnKam]

Lithium mining looks like it’s going to direct extraction from brines. The Salton Sea in California is loaded with brines a mile down and they are already extracting the brines for power generation. So a plant is being readied that will extract the lithium then what’s left is to be pumped back into the ground.

[maxenielsen]

Working from home can potentially reduce use of vehicles of all types. The Covid pandemic has shown that working from home is more practical than previously thought.

[RickBlaine]

Very good. A comparison of the effects of EV against the petroleum industry. Minus the petroleum industry.