What are electric scooters made of?
Electric scooters take 7 things directly, among them aluminum, steel, copper wire, neodymium magnet, tire and lithium-ion cell. Trace them back and you pass 64 made things on the way to 30 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 30 raw materials
- Crude oil through aluminum
- Coal through aluminum
- Rare earth ore through neodymium magnet
- Natural rubber latex through tire
- Sulfur through tire
- Bauxite through aluminum, alumina
- Water through aluminum, alumina
- Iron ore through lithium-ion cell, manganese
- Limestone through steel, quicklime
- Air through steel, argon
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through lithium-ion cell, manganese
- Natural gas through lithium-ion cell, manganese
- Copper ore through printed circuit board, copper
- Nickel ore through lithium-ion cell, nickel
- Zinc ore through neodymium magnet, zinc
- Lithium brine through lithium-ion cell, lithium carbonate
- Spodumene through lithium-ion cell, lithium carbonate
- Cobalt ore through lithium-ion cell, cobalt
- Silica sand through printed circuit board, fiberglass
- Rock salt through lithium-ion cell, lithium carbonate, soda ash
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Lead ore through printed circuit board, solder, silver
- Tin ore through tire, brass, tin
- Trona through lithium-ion cell, lithium carbonate, soda ash
- Silver ore through printed circuit board, solder, silver
- Corn through lithium-ion cell, lithium carbonate, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Sugarcane through lithium-ion cell, lithium carbonate, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through lithium-ion cell, lithium carbonate, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 57 things
Metals 16
AluminaPig ironMagnesiumSteel scrapManganeseCopperNickelZincSteel wireBrassCobaltSolderCokeLeadTinSilver
Chemicals and fuels 28
Petroleum cokeOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonCarbon blackSynthetic graphiteCaustic sodaPropaneSulfuric acidNaphthaBenzeneEthyleneStyreneNitric acidAmmoniaSoda ashPhenolPropyleneAcetoneChlorineCharcoalHydrogenToluenePara-xyleneEthylene glycolCarbon dioxideFormaldehydeMethanol