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Re:Electric Vehicles for Everyone? The Impossible Dream by Tade0 on Friday July 14, 2023 @08:55AM (#36723276)
> Rare earths are too valuable to waste on another few decades of Cybertruck-style profligacy for the richest 1% of the planet

You don't need rare-earths for batteries or motors.

You also don't actually need cobalt either.

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Re:Electric Vehicles for Everyone? The Impossible Dream by slashdev on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:45AM (#36723961)
You’re being downvoted, but you’re correct. Tesla is phasing out both rare earths from their motors and cobalt and nickel from their batteries. Other manufacturers are doing similar.
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