Electric cars and their batteries

macafee2 · 3rd December 2021, 19:10

https://www.cfr.org/blog/why-cobalt-...gent-attention

Anyone watch I think it was Panorama about Cobalt mining?
Tesla came in for some stick.

Some nuns are trying to get Tesla to make sure their cobalt comes from "ethical" mining but the proposal at the AGM was voted down.

Apparently other companies could, without knowing, be getting their cobalt for their batteries from unethical sources.

This s a l'nk to BBC iPlayer if you want to watch it
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...ers-and-losers

As for Teslas worth, wow.

macafee2

edwardmk · 3rd December 2021, 22:05

I watched it. An interesting program. My core take away was that the international mining company was legally obliged to pay a certain local politician vast sums of money and very little of it was going to the indigenous workers who were scratching a living in appalling conditions with regular tunnel collapses.
The current solution seemed to be to fence off the land and sell it to a giant international conglomerate to protect the workers from their unsafe practices, but impoverishing them even more.
If Tesla turned to other sources, the locals would be even worse off.
The obvious and best solution would be to improve local politics and end the corruption. Always easier said than done.

3rd December 2021, 19:10	#1
macafee2 This is my second home Rover 75 Saloon & Tourer Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Lincoln Posts: 14,912 Thanks: 1,630 Thanked 3,032 Times in 2,181 Posts	Electric cars and their batteries https://www.cfr.org/blog/why-cobalt-...gent-attention Anyone watch I think it was Panorama about Cobalt mining? Tesla came in for some stick. Some nuns are trying to get Tesla to make sure their cobalt comes from "ethical" mining but the proposal at the AGM was voted down. Apparently other companies could, without knowing, be getting their cobalt for their batteries from unethical sources. This s a l'nk to BBC iPlayer if you want to watch it https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...ers-and-losers As for Teslas worth, wow. macafee2

3rd December 2021, 22:05	#2
edwardmk Gets stuck in MG ZT 260, Rover 75 Connie SE auto Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Redruth Posts: 984 Thanks: 1,324 Thanked 399 Times in 271 Posts	I watched it. An interesting program. My core take away was that the international mining company was legally obliged to pay a certain local politician vast sums of money and very little of it was going to the indigenous workers who were scratching a living in appalling conditions with regular tunnel collapses. The current solution seemed to be to fence off the land and sell it to a giant international conglomerate to protect the workers from their unsafe practices, but impoverishing them even more. If Tesla turned to other sources, the locals would be even worse off. The obvious and best solution would be to improve local politics and end the corruption. Always easier said than done.