Greenpeace Ranking: Five Major Electric Vehicle Companies Say No to Deep Sea Mining US Companies General Motors, Ford, and Tesla Lag
Race to the Top web application
, which ranks eight major electric vehicle manufacturers on their public stance on deep sea mining. US automakers Ford, General Motors, and Tesla were at the bottom of the ranking, as they have not made a public commitment supporting a moratorium on deep sea mining nor pledged to exclude deep sea minerals from their supply chains.
Deep sea mining companies are counting on the EV market to launch this destructive industry, which could begin operations as early as next year. Yet five of the eight EV manufacturers ranked by Greenpeace have publicly supported a global moratorium on deep sea mining and publicly committed to not sourcing minerals from the deep seabed.“Should deep sea mining begin on an industrial scale, it would cause significant and irreversible damage to our oceans and our climate.
Electric vehicle companies have other options to reduce the need for minerals: they can reduce the need for minerals by scaling up closed-loop battery recycling and improving battery efficiency and new chemistries — two criteria taken into account in this ranking. The launch of the Race to the Top application occurs as delegates from around the world are gathered in Kingston, Jamaica, for a meeting of the International Seabed Authority . The body charged with protecting the seabed as the “common heritage of Humankind” has been criticized by civil society for
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