Not Every EV is Created Equal: A Look at Automakers’ Dirty Supply Chains

2024-01-10

Over a million electric vehicles will be sold this year in the U.S. The EV transition is here to stay and is a critical component of keeping climate change under 1.5 degrees of warming. But experts agree that automakers won’t hit their carbon reduction targets by simply cleaning up tailpipe emissions. They must also decarbonize the supply chain for the materials used to build vehicles. The EV transition is also an unprecedented opportunity to raise the bar for other aspects of the auto supply c...

Over a million electric vehicles will be sold this year in the U.S. The EV transition is here to stay and is a critical component of keeping climate change under 1.5 degrees of warming.

But experts agree that automakers won’t hit their carbon reduction targets by simply cleaning up tailpipe emissions. They must also decarbonize the supply chain for the materials used to build vehicles. The EV transition is also an unprecedented opportunity to raise the bar for other aspects of the auto supply chain, like labor practices and the mining of minerals.

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