Volt Rush
The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green
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Publisher Description
'A remarkably hopeful and useful book...The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new world and as Sanderson makes clear, we are capable of making it a better one than the dirty and dangerous planet we’ve come to take for granted.' Bill McKibben, Observer book of the week
We depend on a handful of metals and rare earths to power our phones and computers. Increasingly, we rely on them to power our cars and our homes. Whoever controls these finite commodities will become rich beyond imagining.
Sanderson journeys to meet the characters, companies, and nations scrambling for the new resources, linking remote mines in the Congo and Chile’s Atacama Desert to giant Chinese battery factories, shadowy commodity traders, secretive billionaires, a new generation of scientists attempting to solve the dilemma of a ‘greener’ world.
Customer Reviews
Very informative book on the electric vehicle revolution
Everybody has heard of Tesla but have you heard of CATL, Ganfeng Lithium, Tianqi Lithium and Huayou Colbalt? In Volt Rush Harry Sanderson takes an in-depth look at the companies involved in mining and refining lithium, cobalt, nickel and copper and making EV batteries.
China was left behind by the internal combustion engine but has sought to dominate the electric vehicle industry by mining and refining the minerals required for the batteries to the production of the EVs themselves.
In this new gold rush not everything is rosy as there are numerous untold environmental and social costs as well and Sanderson does a great job of bringing those to the forefront.
If the internal combustion engine was about oil and who controlled it EVs will be about minerals and whoever gets control of them will be able to control virtually the entire supply chain.