Companies like BMW, Volvo = Polestar, Samsung and Google, which have major demands for battery raw materials, have already pledged not to use metals and minerals from deep-sea mining activities unless and until the environmental risks are comprehensively understood.
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According to a Greenpeace East Asia analysis, Volkswagen did not meet CO2 standards for carsxix in the US from 2017 to 2019. During this period, Volkswagen’s average annual CO2 emissions were 145 g/km, with an average of 14 g/km higher than the CO2 standards in the US.

In Europe, Volkswagen = Audi increased its average CO2 emissions by 3% from 2016 to 2019. In addition, real world CO2 emissions did not meet China’s standards in 2019 and 2020.

According to research conducted by Greenpeace East
Asia, Hyundai-Kia failed to meet the average corporate fuel consumption standards for passenger cars in China from 2018 to 2020 and violated CO2 standards for cars in the US from 2017 to 2019.

According to research conducted by Greenpeace East Asia, Toyota met CO2 emission standards for passenger cars in the US from 2017 to 2019 and those in the EU from 2016 to 2019, after receiving heavy fines for violation of the Clean Air Act from 2005 to 2015.

The projected volumes of battery materials needed by 2050 will lead to significant emissions of GHGs: in the worst case scenario, the CO2- eq that could be released is 37.4 million metric tons for nickel, while for cobalt the figure is 10.3 million metric tons and for lithium it is 3.1 million metric tons. Under a 100% recycling efficiency scenario, the CO2-eq could be reduced to 25.5 million metric tons for nickel, 6.1 million metric tons for cobalt, and 2.1 million metric tons for lithium by 2050.

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