Meet the underwater robots that will make electric cars CHEAPER – and combat child labour

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WE all know that electric cars improve local air quality, but many don’t realise the impact they have on people and the planet thousands of miles away.

The metals extracted from the ground to make all sorts of modern technology, including the batteries in EVs, can be hugely destructive.

For instance, the Democratic Republic of the Congo holds more than 70% of the world’s cobalt – a metal used extensively in EV batteries.

The growing demand for batteries from car makers and technology companies means it is mined relentlessly and has forced an estimated 40,000 children from the region into child labour.

But a firm called Impossible Mining reckons it has the answer.

Speaking to The Sun, Impossible Mining’s chief sustainability officer and co-founder Renee Grogan said: “Getting metals from the sea bed will free up the market and our technology is the most sustainable way to do it.”

She’s talking about her robots which weigh as much as 25 tonnes and can be lowered into the sea, where they float just above the ocean floor four miles beneath the surface.

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