There are multiple battery technologies that are being worked on that reduce or completely eliminates the need for this materials, but it will still take 5-10 years for this technologies to make an impact on the market.,(reply>), @Martijn Maas The most popular one is solid state batteries, they have a lot of benefits, I don't know about their drawbacks yet. There are also other technologies that try to change these materials with other more abundent alternatives.,(reply>), @Espiritu The problems presented in this videos have not gone away. All this materials are still in use today. It's true that some of the new technologies have started to be use on small scale, but this is about the whole industry. Everyone that has a tesla now does have batteries made from nickel, cobalt and lithium. So it's not clickbait.,(reply>), These technologies are already in use and have been for a while now, but this video did not do the real research instead went for cheap clicks and spun the data to fit a single point of view. No cobalt battery's have been in use for a while and on top of that Cobalt is used in Oil the same oil people use in cars, this video is spun data.,(reply>), I hope these new technology not just focus on the problem they try to solve but also take in account the new problems they create.