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Roskill: Spread of COVID-19 threatens cobalt supply; bottlenecks out of DRC

Green Car Congress

As COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide, the pandemic is having an unprecedented impact on the global economy and commodity markets, including cobalt. China is the world’s leading consumer of cobalt, with more than 80% of its consumption being used by the rechargeable battery industry.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

We then used results from a model of the global economy to allocate a portion of this global budget specifically to the U.S. Most EV owners recharge their cars at home or at work, meaning that chargers need to be available in garages, driveways, on-street parking, apartment building parking areas, and commercial parking lots.