She wants to make more efficient batteries without exploiting cobalt miners
Sydney Morris, who studies chemical engineering, wants to make powerful batteries without cobalt, an expensive and unsustainable rare earth mineral that’s often mined by children. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
by Emily Arntsen - contributor
May 10, 2021
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The origin of an electric vehicle begins not on the assembly line, but hundreds of feet underground in a dimly lit tunnel somewhere in the mineral-rich region of central Africa, where miners score the earth in search of cobalt, a key ingredient for the batteries that power these vehicles.