For EV makers, Cobalt is a double headache: it’s likely to be central to lithium ion battery packs for the foreseeable future, and three-quarters of it comes from a single, tricky place – the Democratic Republic of Congo. For Western manufacturers like Tesla and Volkswagen, that’s an even bigger pain, Ed Cropley explains.

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