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An optimist’s guide to the EV battery mining challenge
I hear the same refrain from climate advocates and fossil-fuel boosters: Whether you like electric vehicles or not, mining all the minerals needed for those batteries is going to be a problem. People worry that we’ll run out of lithium, or skyrocketing …