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I have a question. I heard on the news this morning that the price of electric cars will go up because nickel is one of the primary components of them and the major supply of nickel is in Russia. Does anyone know where else we can get this element from or if there is an alternative? I don’t know much about this.

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Nickel is one of the elements in EV batteries, but it's a small portion of the total cost of a battery. EV prices are actually dropping, not going up, although demand can alter that to a degree. With higher gas prices, demand for EVs is definitely rising.

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Sudbury, ON Canada is called the mining capital of the world; it mines and refines Nickel.

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Here is a good chart. According to it, Brazil is on par with Russia, then Switzerland at half their market. Then seven other countries make up the rest of the nickel mining companies. https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/the-worlds-largest-nickel-mining-companies/

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