The Emperor of Electric Cars Is the Boss of Tesla

Around 80 to 95% of all the world's rare earths come from China. Electric cars have huge batteries and require much more rare earths than, let's say, your mobile phone. The batteries that go into electric cars also need large amounts of things like cobalt. In April this year, electric cars accounted for 17% of all car sales,. which was up from 7% the year before.

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