[arista]

[Battery technology remains the biggest limitation
for electric vehicle companies - and a typical
electric car battery requires up to
20 pounds (9kg) of cobalt,
much of which is sourced from
the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

When a Sky News team visited a string
of mines in the DRC's former Katanga Province,
it found children working at all of them.]

[At one cobalt mine, children were found
toiling in the drenching rain carrying
huge sacks of the mineral.

One boy called Dorsen, who was eight years old,
had no shoes and told Sky News he hadn't made
enough money to eat for
the past two days - despite working for about 12 hours a day.]

https://news.sky.com/story/electric-...oring-11757459

[LeatherTrumpet]

You can't recycle the batteries and manufacturing is China.

[Swan]

Power cuts

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

You can't recycle the batteries and manufacturing is China.

this is pretty grim tbh

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by arista

[Battery technology remains the biggest limitation
for electric vehicle companies - and a typical
electric car battery requires up to
20 pounds (9kg) of cobalt,
much of which is sourced from
the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

When a Sky News team visited a string
of mines in the DRC's former Katanga Province,
it found children working at all of them.]

[At one cobalt mine, children were found
toiling in the drenching rain carrying
huge sacks of the mineral.

One boy called Dorsen, who was eight years old,
had no shoes and told Sky News he hadn't made
enough money to eat for
the past two days - despite working for about 12 hours a day.]

https://news.sky.com/story/electric-...oring-11757459

and this