The Other Side Of a Story About Electric Vehicles

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An army of children working in poluted mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo. They are working in inhumane conditions every day just to make money for food. And just that we could have enough cobalt for EVs
 

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"Scientists working for American Manganese Inc., located in the suburbs of Vancouver, have developed a way to produce enough of the bluish-gray metal to power all the electric cars on the road today without drilling into the ground: by recycling faulty batteries."

from bloomberg 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-01/the-cobalt-crunch-for-electric-cars-could-be-solved-in-suburbia