And About Time Too!

children in slave labour need protecting, 

and with this headline 'Electric vehicles will need 'battery passports' to enter EU from 2027', steps at last will be made to protect the roughly 40,000 children that work “in extremely dangerous conditions, with inadequate safety equipment for very little money in the mines in Southern Katanga", Africa, so EV owners can smirk about how they are saving the planet, so as mention by the Guardian companies like Tesla, VW, Volvo, Renault and Mercedes-Benz, will have great fun trying to explain how allegedly they were all involved with child exploitation, battery passports will at last shine a light on often murky and interchangeable supply chains and provide greater transparency and opportunities to scrutinize the pre-production process, Ellen Carey, chief external affairs officer at Circulor, which specializes in supply chain visibility and creates battery passports, Carey told Autocar the passports will “create accountability of that supply chain – who touched what, when and where” and alert manufacturers to changes in their supply chains so they can “interrogate the activity”, She continued: “It becomes less about procurement and procuring supplies and more about supply chain visibility and management to distribute the accountability across the whole thing.” Circulor’s passport reveals the sources of cobalt, graphite, lithium, mica and nickel, all the materials children are exploited for as it happens, to read the full battery passport for cars have a look here.