1. The battery age 2. Dashed hopes: the troubled history of the EV 3. The breakthroughs: the lithium-ion revolution 4. China's battery king 5. The Chinese lithium rush 6. Chile's buried treasure 7. The cobalt problem 8. The rise of a cobalt giant 9. Blood cobalt 10. Dirty nickel 11. The green copper tycoon 12. The final frontier: mining the deep sea 13. Reduce, re-use, recycle: a closed loop 14. The world's greenest battery 15. Cornwall's mining revival