Mark Travers, Executive Director of base metals at Brazilian mining company Vale SA, told Reuters that the company is currently talking to Tesla and its competitors in the EV industry to try and strike deals with them for the nickel it is currently mining in Canada. Nickel is the biggest challenge for high-volume, long-range batteries! […]
In spite of the environmental benefit brought to the world by lowering emissions through its electric vehicles (EVs), Tesla is up against an environmental battle for its resources too, and it’s unlikely to offer the same benefits from behind closed doors. On Tuesday, Financial Times shed more light on ethical nickel mining for electric vehicles, […]
Part of the hope in the future of electric vehicles is the minimized impact they’ll have on our environment. However, this goal cannot be achieved if products are not also sourced ethically and sustainably, or the efforts will be counterproductive at best. As reported by Eye on the Arctic, indigenous groups in Russia wrote a […]
