With Britain joining France in pledging to ban sales of petrol and diesel cars by 2040, the government has stated it will invest more than £800m in driverless and clean technology.
BMW recently announced that they are building a fully EV of the Mini from 2019 while Volvo publicised that from the same year all of its new models will have an electric motor.
Although, the road to a promised land of zero emission vehicles has several bumps it needs to overcome. Battery makers are finding it difficult to secure the supplies needed to power such large packs - mainly cobalt and lithium. The hopes of this dream rely on the mining sector discovering more deposits of these precious minerals.
Miners are confident that more deposits exist – but they still need to find them.
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