"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.

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 increase from 2022.
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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 carrying a single 75kWh NMC (nickel-manganese-cobalt) battery. An equivalent traditional car would require about 34kg (75 pounds) of minerals to produce.

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 the extraction 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

On Monday, June 5, 2023 at 9:05:37 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
> "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.
>
> 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 increase from 2022.
> ...
> 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 carrying a single 75kWh NMC (nickel-manganese-cobalt) battery. An equivalent traditional car would require about 34kg (75 pounds) of minerals to produce.
>
> 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 the extraction 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

About 25 to 33 % of cars in China are electric car. It will go up even more. Price of car has gone down. Those on motorcycles are using battery pack. All they need to do is to bring the pack to the battery shop and get a fully charged replaced. China can completely change to electric vehicles if more shops are available to service battery change.