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The Prize (Cobalt): EVelution Energy's Gil Michel-Garcia
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The Prize (Cobalt): EVelution Energy's Gil Michel-Garcia

Co-founder of a US critical minerals startup talks to us about how he sees the US v China geopolitics and economics reshaping his sector
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Gil Michel-Garcia is co-founder of EVelution Energy, which is building a solar-powered cobalt processing facility in Yuma, Arizona that could supply enough material for 1 million EV batteries a year to US auto manufacturers. And how competition for critical mineral supplies between China and the West will shape his sector as well as a lot of the politics of the next decade.

Gil Michel-Garcia, co-founder of EVelution Energy

Cobalt is one of those minerals that has seen wild price swings over the past couple of years:

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