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332 | How the Congo's Cobalt Fuels Electric Vehicles, Batteries, and Modern-Day Slavery with Siddharth Kara

The Realignment

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What Is Cobalt?

Cobalt is found in the cathode part of just about every single lithium ion rechargeable battery made in the world today. Three fourths of the world's supply of cobalt is mined in a small patch of the Congo. "We cannot get through a day without a cobalt," he says.

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