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Finding Battery Minerals With AI

Cars That Think

He’s the co-founder and president of KoBold Metals , an AI-powered mineral exploration company working to discover the materials for electric vehicle batteries. What metals do we need for electric vehicle batteries and how much do we need of them? And then of course we use copper windings in the electric motors as well.

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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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