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Europe is looking to fight the flood of Chinese electric vehicles. But Europeans love them (apnews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Mining is responsible for more CO2 than the rest of manufacturing. We also do use renewables for aluminum - there is enough energy required that energy cost is a big deal and so production is done in areas where energy is cheap - generally meaning geothermo.