{"id":9237,"date":"2021-07-27T11:26:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T15:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=9237"},"modified":"2021-07-28T08:55:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T12:55:29","slug":"elon-musk-criticizes-apple-over-cobalt-use-in-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/elon-musk-criticizes-apple-over-cobalt-use-in-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Criticizes Apple Over Cobalt Use In Batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently criticized Apple for its App Store policy and the use of &#8220;100%&#8221; cobalt in iPhone and Mac batteries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Musk made the comments as he unveiled Tesla&#8217;s earnings for the second quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Musk answered questions during the earnings call about Tesla&#8217;s plan to open its prized supercharging network to third parties. Musk explained that the company is not interested in creating a &#8220;walled garden&#8221; but instead to &#8220;support the advent of sustainable energy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also revealed, while trying to answer questions about Tesla&#8217;s supply chain, that Apple uses 100% cobalt for its batteries, while Tesla uses a much lower amount of cobalt.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Apple has been criticized and questioned in the past over the use of cobalt.<\/p>\n<p>For example a report in 2019 accused Apple of \u201caiding and abetting\u201d forced child labor in cobalt mines.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2021\/07\/26\/musk-apple-comments-cobalt-app-store\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in 9to5Mac<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk recently criticized Apple for its App Store policy and the use of &#8220;100%&#8221; cobalt in iPhone and Mac batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[202,125],"class_list":["post-9237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-apple","tag-tesla"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9237"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9289,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237\/revisions\/9289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}