{"id":106298,"date":"2021-08-18T22:37:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T20:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electrek.co\/?p=195774"},"modified":"2023-08-28T14:56:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T14:56:27","slug":"electric-cars-need-cobalt-and-copper-and-zambias-president-elect-wants-to-supply-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/electric-cars-need-cobalt-and-copper-and-zambias-president-elect-wants-to-supply-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric cars need cobalt and copper, and Zambia\u2019s president-elect wants to supply it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.evearly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/electric-cars-need-cobalt-and-copper-and-zambias-president-elect-wants-to-supply-it.jpg\"><br \/>\nZambian president-elect Hakainde Hichilema won a landslide victory in the country\u2019s election last week, beating the incumbent, Edgar Lungu. Hichilema\u2019s plan is to ramp up mining in particular to jump-start Zambia\u2019s economy \u2013 and provide the rapidly growing electric vehicle battery industry with crucial cobalt and copper <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2021\/08\/18\/electric-cars-need-cobalt-and-copper-and-zambias-president-elect-wants-to-supply-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/electric-cars-need-cobalt-and-copper-and-zambias-president-elect-wants-to-supply-it\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253187,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106298\/revisions\/253187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}