{"id":404800,"date":"2021-03-15T11:03:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T05:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=404800"},"modified":"2021-03-15T11:28:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T05:58:17","slug":"electric-cars-will-cost-more-using-ethically-sourced-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/electric-cars-will-cost-more-using-ethically-sourced-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric cars will cost more using ethically sourced batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union\u2019s efforts to ethically source a key battery metal is facing headwinds that could make it more expensive for automakers to go electric.<\/p>\n<p>Cobalt is the battery metal at the highest risk of being exploited in ways that damage the health of people and the environment. Most of the world\u2019s supply comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo, with as much as a third of that supplied by small-scale miners who often work in dangerous conditions. Regulators have begun developing rules designed to help industry avoid damaging its reputation.<\/p>\n<p>But those \u201cambitious requirements might currently be too difficult,&#8221; according to an assessment prepared by researchers advising the European Commission. The report, which will be published by Elsevier Ltd.\u2019s Resources Policy journal in June, suggests a tightening market for responsibly sourced cobalt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union\u2019s efforts to ethically source a key battery metal is facing headwinds that could make it more expensive for automakers to go electric. Cobalt is the battery metal at the highest risk of being exploited in ways that damage the health of people and the environment. Most of the world\u2019s supply comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo, with as much as a third of that supplied by small-scale miners who often work in dangerous conditions. Regulators have begun developing rules designed to help industry avoid damaging its reputation. But those \u201cambitious requirements might currently be too difficult,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}