Electric car sales have soared as new tech and falling prices have begun to move electric cars into the main stream. But how sustainable is it? Batteries allow engineers to build cars that don't amit greenhouse gases. In a feature published this week, nature reporter devede castle veki has been delving into the sustainability of the sustainable option. He's joined me on the phone for a chat. Hide everday. Next our reporter, noah baker, has been thinking about battery over the past few years.
A team is creating bespoke words for scientific terms in African languages, and the sustainability of the electric car boom.
00:46 Creating new words for scientific terms
Many words that are common to science have never been written in some African languages, or speakers struggle to agree what the right term is. Now a new project aims to change that, by translating 180 research papers into six languages spoken by millions of people across the continent of Africa.
As electric cars become more ubiquitous, manufacturers will have to up the production of batteries needed to power them. But that begs the question - can they be mass produced in a sustainable way?
We discuss some highlights from the Nature Briefing. This time, how a tusk-based ‘chemical GPS’ revealed details of a mammoth’s enormous journeys , and why the Perseverance rover’s first efforts to collect a Mars rock sample didn’t go according to plan.