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Electric cars need cobalt and copper, and Zambia’s president-elect wants to supply it

Electrek

Hichilema’s plan is to ramp up mining in particular to jump-start Zambia’s economy – and provide the rapidly growing electric vehicle battery industry with crucial cobalt and copper.

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Finding Battery Minerals With AI

Cars That Think

In 2022, more than 10 million electric cars were sold around the world, up 55 percent over sales in 2021. For this trend to continue, though, mining companies need to find a lot more of the metals used to build electric cars and their batteries. And then of course we use copper windings in the electric motors as well.

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Top 14 Electric Vehicle Motor Manufacturers in India: Driving Sustainable Mobility

Get Electric Vehicle

The company has also invested in the research and development of advanced motor technologies to enhance the performance and range of their electric vehicles. It has implemented the ZIPTRON technology in its electric cars to improve the efficiency and performance of the vehicles. #3. 13 Laxmi Hydraulics Pvt.

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UN report highlights urgent need to tackle impact of EV battery production boom

Green Car Congress

Demand for raw materials used in the production of electric car batteries is set to soar, prompting the UN trade body, UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), to call for the social and environmental impacts of the extraction of raw materials, which include human rights abuses, to be addressed urgently.

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