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


Freya Pratty

4 min read

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.

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Freya Pratty

Freya Pratty is Sifted's associate editor. She covers UK tech and leads Sifted's investigations. Follow her on X , LinkedIn and Bluesky

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