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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you buying us the EV?  If so, that would be great.[/quote]

Clear cutting the rainforest to mine nickel and other precious metals to make the ev batteries and other electronics is not as cool as everyone here overlooks. See what nickel mining is doing to indigenous people and rainforests. [/quote]

Here is just one source:

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/the-scramble-for-ev-battery-metals-is-just-beginning-11638443405

Making the global economy more environmentally sustainable will require a lot more natural resources. This is an irony the mining industry will need both to exploit and to defuse.

Electric vehicles highlight the problematic opportunity for miners. Although a Tesla or Porsche Taycan doesn’t have a tailpipe and usually generates much less carbon than a traditional car over a multiyear lifespan, its big lithium-ion battery requires more metal than an internal combustion engine. Consulting firm Rystad Energy expects annual lithium demand from EVs and energy storage to rise by a factor of more than 20 times by 2030 compared with last year’s level.

Lithium-ion batteries also contain cobalt, nickel, copper and aluminum. And this isn’t just about batteries: Solar panels, wind turbines, charging stations and the grid infrastructure to tie them together will all need masses of metal. There is talk of a new “supercycle,” with specialist stocks such as lithium miner Albemarle pricing in astronomical growth.

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