It's getting very tiresome to see big oil/right wing talking points repeated on HN constantly. You can go read the Tesla impact report here: https://www.tesla.com/impact and see that they're doing their best to eliminate conflict minerals in their battery chemistry.

I mean, you can also hit up the Shell website and read all about how good they are for the environment, driving the transition to clean energy etc.

I know you're taking the piss but I worked for a Shell subsidiary for 2 years very recently and they actually take all the "green" stuff very seriously despite the fact their core business accounts for 2% of global co2 emissions. It's very bizarre and much of the internal "greenwashing" dialog reads like a catholic confessional.

With that out of the way there is a difference between corporate PR greenwashing and literally changing battery chemistries to not contain as many rare earth minerals.

>That fundamentally alter which limited resource we start wars over!

Sodium?

https://www.unige.ch/communication/communiques/en/2022/un-no...