The quest to prevent batteries - rich in raw materials such as cobalt, lithium and nickel - ending up as a mountain of wasteA tsunami of electric vehicles is expected in rich countries, as car companies and governments pledge to ramp up their numbers - there are predicted be 145m on the roads by 2030. But while electric vehicles can play an important role in reducing emissions, they also contain a potential environmental timebomb: their batteries.By one estimate, more than 12m tons of lithium-ion batteries are expected to retire between now and 2030. Continue reading...
Millions of electric car batteries will retire in the next decade. What happens to them?
20. srpna 2021 14:15
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/20/electric-car-batteries-what-happens-to-them
Zdroj: The Guardian