EVs may not be clean amid South-east Asia’s slow energy transition

GOING electric is commonly seen as an important step in the switch to clean energy. But some environmentalists worry that South-east Asia’s clean energy transition is lagging behind the pace of electric vehicle (EV) development, while the region’s nickel mining industry may even exacerbate environmental problems.

Nickel is a key component of the batteries used in EVs, and Indonesia and the Philippines are respectively the world’s biggest and second biggest nickel producers, with the former prod…

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