{"id":28037,"date":"2023-07-09T00:02:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T22:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/07\/09\/the-rush-for-cobalt-investigating-the-dark-side-of-electric-car-batteries\/"},"modified":"2023-07-09T00:02:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T22:02:17","slug":"the-rush-for-cobalt-investigating-the-dark-side-of-electric-car-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/07\/09\/the-rush-for-cobalt-investigating-the-dark-side-of-electric-car-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"The rush for cobalt: Investigating the dark side of electric car batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>FRANCE 24 brings you a special debate\u00a0about\u00a0the rush for cobalt, a strategic mineral essential to making electric car batteries. Electric vehicles will help reduce the pollution caused by the internal combustion engine, the current standard for most motorised transport. But as\u00a0our\u00a0special\u00a0full-length\u00a0Reporters programme shows, the mining\u00a0of the cobalt\u00a0necessary for the\u00a0batteries is already a source of human misery and damage to the environment, particularly in DR Congo. We delve into the issue with our guests, including the co-director of \u00ab\u00a0The Battle for Cobalt\u00a0\u00bb, our documentary about the dark side of the cobalt rush.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRANCE 24 brings you a special debate\u00a0about\u00a0the rush for cobalt, a strategic mineral essential to making electric car batteries. Electric vehicles will help reduce the pollution caused by the internal combustion engine, the current standard for most motorised transport. But as\u00a0our\u00a0special\u00a0full-length\u00a0Reporters programme shows, the mining\u00a0of the cobalt\u00a0necessary for the\u00a0batteries is already a source of human &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-28037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}