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Battery life

A series investigating the human rights implications of the electric car supply chain

1 April 2024

  • A 3D rendering of dark solar panels and wind turbines alongside a modular battery energy storage system

    Salt, air and bricks: could this be the future of energy storage?

    Start-ups turn to heat over batteries and are aiming to industrialise the practice

21 February 2024

  • A water battery developed by researchers at RMIT in Melbourne.

    Greener ‘water batteries’ a step closer thanks to breakthrough by Melbourne researchers

    RMIT team develops method that could replace common lead-acid batteries, offering a safer and more recyclable alternative

27 November 2022

  • Britishvolt executive chairman Peter Rolton shows a billboard promoting the company's planned battery plant in Blyth, north-east England.

    Britishvolt scraps plan for second factory in Canada

    Troubled startup battery maker formally abandons long-shot plan to build 60GW plant in Quebec

19 February 2022

  • Indonesia - Battery Life by Pep Boatella

    ‘We are afraid’: Erin Brockovich pollutant linked to global electric car boom

    Exclusive: Investigation uncovers evidence of contaminated air and water from one of Indonesia’s largest nickel mines

26 November 2021

  • An employee secures battery pack cable on a Volkswagen e-Golf electric automobile at the Volkswagen AG factory in Dresden, Germany.

    Battery power: five innovations for cleaner, greener electric vehicles

    EVs are seen as key in transition to low-carbon economy, but as their human and environmental costs become clearer, can new tech help?

25 November 2021

  • Pep2RGB

    ‘Battery arms race’: how China has monopolised the electric vehicle industry

    Chinese companies dominate mining, battery and manufacturing sectors, and amid human rights concerns, Europe and the US are struggling to keep pace

19 November 2021

  • PepFinalRGB

    Rio Tinto’s past casts a shadow over Serbia’s hopes of a lithium revolution

    People in the Jadar valley fear environmental catastrophe as Europe presses for self-sufficiency in battery technology

8 November 2021

  • Cobalt mining

    ‘Like slave and master’: DRC miners toil for 30p an hour to fuel electric cars

    Congolese workers describe a system of abuse, precarious employment and paltry wages – all to power the green vehicle revolution
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