Should the Cobalt for EVs Come From the Congo or the Seafloor?
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Last March, BMW and Volvo joined other companies calling for a moratorium on deep-sea mining , one spearheaded by the World Wildlife Fund. But the question of whether obtaining cobalt and other valuable metals from the ocean floor would help or hurt the environment overall is, in fact, quite complicated.
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