{"id":113939,"date":"2020-10-05T23:22:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T06:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/tesla-in-talks-with-vale-to-buy-canadian-nickel-for-electric-cars"},"modified":"2020-10-05T23:22:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T06:22:19","slug":"tesla-in-talks-with-vale-to-buy-canadian-nickel-for-electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/tesla-in-talks-with-vale-to-buy-canadian-nickel-for-electric-cars","title":{"rendered":"Tesla in talks with Vale to buy Canadian nickel for electric cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-in-talks-with-vale-to-buy-canadian-nickel-for-electric-cars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk in July urged miners to produce more nickel, a key ingredient in the batteries that power the company\u2019s electric cars. Musk offered a \u201cgiant contract\u201d if supplies could be produced in an environmentally sensitive way.<\/p>\n<p>While EVs are expected to help reduce global carbon emission, environmentalists are concerned that production of EV parts and increased mining may damage the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk in July urged miners to produce more nickel, a key ingredient in the batteries that power the company\u2019s electric cars. Musk offered a \u201cgiant contract\u201d if supplies could be produced in an environmentally sensitive way. While EVs are expected to help reduce global carbon emission, environmentalists are concerned that production of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}