Once on the road, electric vehicles offer a sustainable alternative to combustion engines — but their production involves mining lots of minerals, which isn't the greenest of processes. Sarah Montgomery is the cofounder of Infyos, a startup which helps battery manufacturers improve their supply chain resilience and sustainability, and chatted to Sustain about the challenges that EV suppliers face.
Interview
April 29, 2022
How can we clean up the electric vehicle supply chain?
Electric cars are good news for the planet - but mining the minerals for their batteries is not. Sarah Montgomery from Infyos gives us the rundown
4 min read
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