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The Fuse
Electric Vehicle Production and Critical Minerals Supply
29th March 2018

The production of electric vehicles (EVs) requires substantially larger quantities of minerals than internal combustion engine vehicles. Without these minerals, vehicle bodies and critical components such as engine magnets and batteries cannot be built. The needed minerals range from the widely recognizable aluminum, copper and silver, to the more esoteric cobalt, lithium and graphite. The rapid and continuing rise in EV production, as well as increasing use of many rare minerals in the production of other products such as aircrafts and consumer electronics, has focused attention on the availability of these metals.