How green is your electric car really? New battery ‘passports’ will reveal all
When shopping for a new electric bike, an electronic scooter or an electric car, a new “passport” for the batteries will soon help you understand the effect of its battery on the environment.
As Ebiketaps reports, the plan should start at the end of 2022 and tell you how and where a specific battery has been made, and even how it could be reused once it reaches the end of his life. Let’s become more and more important because electric vehicles become general public.
The electric vehicle industry (EV) is booming, largely thanks to its greener alternative to conventional vehicles, producing many emissions of a lot of gas and particles. However, EV batteries have their own environmental and social costs.
Mining problems
For example, the demand for lithium (an essential material for EV batteries) has increased in recent years and mining the metal in Chile requires huge amounts of water, resulting in reduced availability for people and wildlife.
Cobalt’s demand has also increased thanks to the growing popularity of EVS. More than 70% of the cobalt of the world is undermined in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where serious human rights problems, including fatal accidents and child labor, are widely reported.
The battery passport system will give much more transparency, helping to identify the best and worse batteries in class and provide minimum standards for ethical and durable batteries.
It will not be simply for car manufacturers and bicycle builders, either. According to the overall battery combination, which is the organization behind the schema, the key information will also be available for customers so that you can create an educated choice when selecting a new car, bike or scooter .
