{"id":2431,"date":"2021-09-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/uncategorized\/false-choice-is-deep-sea-mining-required-for-an-electric-vehicle-revolution\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T14:40:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T14:40:56","slug":"false-choice-is-deep-sea-mining-required-for-an-electric-vehicle-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/false-choice-is-deep-sea-mining-required-for-an-electric-vehicle-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018False choice\u2019: is deep-sea mining required for an electric vehicle revolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deep sea mining firms claim their rare metals are necessary to power clean tech &ndash; but with even major electric car firms now backing a moratorium, critics say there is an alternative<\/p>\n<p>&bull; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/sep\/27\/race-to-the-bottom-the-disastrous-blindfolded-rush-to-mine-the-deep-sea\">More from this series: Race to the bottom &ndash; the rush to mine the deep sea<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the Goodwood festival of speed near Chichester, the crowds gathered at the hill-climb circuit to watch the world&rsquo;s fastest cars roar past, as they do every year. But not far from the high-octane action, there was a new, and quieter, attraction: a display of the latest electric vehicles, from the &pound;28,000 Mini Electric to the &pound;2m Lotus Evija hypercar. Even here, at one of the biggest events in Britain&rsquo;s petrolhead calendar, it&rsquo;s clear the days of the internal combustion engine are numbered.<\/p>\n<p>As countries strive to meet stringent carbon-emission targets, and vehicle-makers phase out combustion engines, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/apr\/29\/electric-vehicles-on-worlds-roads-expected-to-increase-to-145m-by-2030\">145m electric vehicles are predicted to be on the roads within a decade<\/a>, up from 11m last year. The car batteries they require, along with storage batteries for solar and wind power, have sent demand for metals soaring, taking mining firms to the bottom of the sea in the hunt for those metals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/sep\/28\/false-choice-is-deep-sea-mining-required-for-an-electric-vehicle-revolution\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep sea mining firms claim their rare metals are necessary to power clean tech &ndash; but with even major electric car firms now backing a moratorium, critics say there is an alternative &bull; More from this series: Race to the bottom &ndash; the rush to mine the deep sea At the Goodwood festival of speed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - 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