The Great EV Con: The deception driving our green future

“Our workers are dying for electric cars,” that’s the ominous message to Australians from Jay Jaelani, a union leader in the world’s largest nickel processing facility, Indonesia’s Morowali Industrial Park.

Electric vehicles have been sold as a clean, green dream, with hundreds of thousands of climate-conscious Australians getting onboard.

But a special Spotlight investigation has found some electric vehicles (EVs) are more of a dirty joke.

In a 7NEWS Spotlight world exclusive, Senior Reporter Liam Bartlett goes undercover in Indonesia where few western journalists have gone before – inside the EV industry’s ‘heart of darkness’.

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