Chinese battery maker for the stars of the EV world suddenly wants to be seen powering human rights
It's hard not to welcome a company signing up for this sort of thing.
But CATL is doubtless aware that a substantial portion of the raw materials used in the global auto supply chain are sourced from Xinjiang, an region in which China is credibly accused of abusing the human rights of the Muslim minority Uyghur population, with human rights orgs accusing the Middle Kingdom of practicing forced labor and other discriminatory actions.investigation found the electric vehicle battery supply chain particularly egregious.
Such batteries are CATL's staple. The company is currently the biggest lithium battery manufacturer in the world andCATL-backed lithium miner Zhite New Materials paid $885 million for rights to a mine in the Xijiang province this year – a purchase it later
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