Climate, raw material and development policy implications of electromobility
A discussion paper from BER, PowerShift and VENROB
The US technology group Tesla, the German chemical company BASF and the US battery producer Microvast are currently building new capacities for the production of electric cars and batteries in Brandenburg. These large-scale industrial projects represent the “drive revolution” in the automotive industry, i.e. the urgently needed switch from the internal combustion engine (petrol, diesel) to electromobility. However, this development also has a variety of raw material, energy, transport, climate and human rights policy implications on the ground and in countries of the Global South. Can local and regional production of electric cars function fairly globally? And what possibilities for action are there for development policy actors?
