Finding ways to get hold of the metals and minerals to make electric vehicle batteries is a big problem. And it's only going to get bigger, as more and more automakers announce their gigafactory intentions. One barrier keeping this from happening on the massive scale we need it to is the fact that it can be critically environmentally destructive. Also, an awful lot of places containing what's needed are famously tricky to mine. or require towns to be built on sheer cliffs and roped together with cable cars, like the Chiatura manganese mine.
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