Clean cars, dirty batteries: Cobalt mining in the Congo​

ZDF

A 45-minute documentary about the cobalt production in electric vehicles. 

 People who buy an electric car want the "good" car, the car that pollutes the environment as little as possible. But cobalt is needed for the production of electric car batteries.

Few people are aware of the human suffering involved in mining this coveted raw material. The film shows the efforts of the European car industry to prove clean supply chains and documents in the cobalt mines in Congo that this is impossible.


Director: Vanessa Schlesier, Lukas Augustin

Collaboration: Carina Körner
Editor: Stefanie Reichel, Daniel Latzel, Julian Lyubych

Camera: Lukas Augustin, Vanessa Schlesier, Daniel Stiefelhagen
Production: Kobalt Documentary 

Producer: Katrin Sandmann
Commissioning Editor: Wolfgang Aull (ZDF)