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Shiny EVs in Sight, Indonesia Mulls Nickel Export Tax

    

    

Photographer: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images

Hello. Today we look at a potential nickel export tax from the world’s biggest producer of the electric-vehicle battery metal, the energy crisis for poorer nations and Europe’s periphery debt conundrum.

Indonesia could impose a tax on nickel exports this year as Southeast Asia’s largest economy looks to be a bigger player in the electric vehicle industry.