Electric Cars and the Resource Challenge
This book is the first to fully explore the short- and long-term impact of the global electric car rollout on the supply of raw materials. The world has gone from zero to almost 1.5 billion fossil fuel cars in circulation today, contributing significantly to the global climate crisis and necessitati...
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
London :
Routledge,
2025.
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| Series | Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability
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| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781003509431 1003509436 9781040164761 1040164765 9781040164730 1040164730 9781032834603 9781032833132 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (viii, 150 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Toward electric driving in a fair world2. Protecting climate and resources: An inconvenient combination 3. The electric car and the energy transition: Synergy or conflict?4. Sensitivity analysis5. Five critical metals in electric cars: A closer look 5.1 Copper: Aorta of the energy transition 5.2 Lithium lakes 5.3 Cobalt from Congo: A story of winners and losers 5.4 War on the nickel exchange 5.5 Greenland and its rare earths are not for sale 6. Car recycling: The circular economy in practice 7. The market in service of fair resource management Epilogue