Electric vehicles big-dirty secret!

The electric vehicle revolution comes with its own dirty cost. The materials that go in today’s batteries, such as nickel, lithium and cobalt, are in extreme demand. Prices for these minerals are soaring for the countries in which these elements are buried, The electric vehicle boom promises profits, but also it means massive extraction efforts, and the environmental and social issues that these cause. For instance, in Chile, huge evaporation pools draw lithium out of the salt flats. It’s tak...