As gearheads and auto industry suits streamed into the Los Angeles Convention Center Saturday for the LA Auto Show, they found themselves in the middle of a scene out of Squid Games. Demonstrators clad in the Netflix show’s red jumpsuits and black guard masks splayed across the showroom floor like victims in a deadly game of red light, green light.
The die-in, staged by activists from the climate advocacy groups Mighty Earth and Youth Climate Strike LA, was meant to call out the oft-overlooked dirty underbelly of clean transportation—the electric vehicle supply chain.
The EV supply chain, which includes everything from mineral mining to metal smelting and battery manufacturing, generates 35
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