The Wall Street Journal reports that on April 1, Hong Kong slashed a tax break on electric vehicles, and Tesla’s electric vehicle sales dropped to zero: Not a single newly purchased Tesla model was registered in Hong Kong in April, according to official data from the city’s Transportation Department analyzed by The Wall Street Journal.

The CEO of a Canadian mining company that is set to invest in mining cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was refreshingly honest about electric vehicle maker Tesla’s dependence on Congo’s cobalt:

Bloomberg reports that Tesla plans to open a manufacturing plant in China in an effort to avoid taxes:

A recent report predicts a “nine-fold increase in copper demand” by 2027 due to electric vehicles.

Germany’s Deutsche Welle (DW) highlighted the rampant use of child labor in mining cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: According to the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, about 40,000 children work in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo. For a shift of up to 24 hours underground, most earn less than $2 […]

Tesla’s “factories of the future” are turning out to be a nightmare for its workers: Ambulances have been called more than 100 times since 2014 for workers experiencing fainting spells, dizziness, seizures, abnormal breathing and chest pains, according to incident reports obtained by the Guardian. Hundreds more were called for injuries and other medical issues.