Batteries take “rare earth metals” like cobalt.
Some Lithium-Ion batteries use Cobalt, but many don’t. Lithium-Iron-Phosphate, for example, is a popular variant without any Cobalt. There is a push going on to move to battery chemistries without Cobalt or to reduce the actual amount of Cobalt where it is still required.
marx2k@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Lithium production does still take an insane amount of water to produce
felbane@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Wait until you hear about the oil refining process!
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My car meme groups keep recirculating a shitty gotcha anti-EV screenshot of a post listing out how many tons of rock get processed for the minerals, the gallon-per-hour rate of the mining trucks, generators, transportation, blah blah blah as if petroleum just naturally drips put of weeds and into their gas tanks. But I guess if you dilute into the ocean and atmosphere, it doesn’t really count because you can’t see it.
Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Or in the case of Canada, to separate oil out of the ground!