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Geopolitics and the electric vehicle revolution

Robert J.R. Elliott, Gavin Harper, Benjamin Jones and Viet Nguyen-Tien


Rising demand for electric vehicles (EVs) is changing the geopolitical landscape, as the world pivots away from fossil fuels towards the green minerals critical to the EV supply chain. Benjamin Jones, Viet Nguyen-Tien, Robert Elliott and Gavin Harper explain how the race to secure the supply of raw materials needed for EV batteries is creating new opportunities and geopolitical risks.


20 October 2023     Paper Number CEPCP664

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This CentrePiece article is published under the centre's Growth programme, Green Transition programme.

This publication comes under the following theme: Technology adoption and diffusion, Clean growth