"Electric vehicle (EV) sales have tripled over the past three years, from nearly three million new electric cars sold worldwide in 2020 to 10 million last year.increase from 2022.
To put that figure into perspective, for every 20 new cars sold around the world in 2022, three were electric.
Government policies and stricter emissions standards have helped accelerate the adoption of electric cars. By the end of 2023, the International Energy Agency (IEA) projects that some 14 million electric cars will be sold this year – a 35 percent
...carrying a single 75kWh NMC (nickel-manganese-cobalt) battery. An equivalent traditional car would require about 34kg (75 pounds) of minerals to produce.
What minerals are used in electric vehicles?
At the heart of every electric vehicle is its battery. Most plug-in hybrids and fully-electric vehicles use lithium-ion batteries, which are lightweight and energy dense.
When compared with conventional cars, EVs require significantly more minerals to produce. To illustrate these differences, according to the IEA, besides steel and aluminium, it takes more than 200kg (440 pounds) of minerals to produce an electric car
In addition to copper and manganese, which are present in both traditional and electric vehicles, the batteries and motors of electric vehicles also rely on significant quantities of graphite, nickel, cobalt, lithium, and rare earth – for which theextraction is often marred by environmental contamination and worker exploitation in the Global South."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/5/visualising-the-growth-of-the-electric-car-industry
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