Electric vehicle transition could create unwanted air pollution hotspots in China and India

New research has uncovered a potential unintended consequence of the electric vehicle transition in India and China, finding that sulfur dioxide emissions could actually increase over current levels if the countries were to fully onshore their electric vehicle supply chains. The overwhelming majority of those emissions would come from refining and manufacturing nickel and cobalt — important minerals for today’s electric vehicle batteries.
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