Electric car manufactured entirely without metals or minerals

Sandvik has unveiled the world’s first electric car made without any metals or minerals – and it doesn’t move. The transparent car, called eNimon (or the no mine car), is a reminder of what the world would look like without mining. More than 90 % of an electric car comes from mined materials. Without them, there are no electrical vehicles, no wind turbines, no solar panels. That’s the point of eNimon – to show what’s at stake if we don’t scale up sustainable mining. “Sustainable mining is the backbone of the green transition,” says Mats Eriksson, President at Business Area Mining at Sandvik. “Without it, we can’t meet climate goals.”

The demand for critical minerals like lithium, nickel and copper is skyrocketing, and current supply can’t keep up. For example:

Electrical vehicles need 6x more minerals than regular cars.

Wind farms need 9x more than gas plants.

Hitting net-zero by 2050 means up to 5x more lithium, nickel and cobalt.

The eNimon car is now on display at the National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm/Sweden.