STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct 30, 2025 – 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 percent 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.
Want to see what a world without mining looks like? https://home.sandvik/nominecar.
About Sandvik Group
Sandvik is a global, high-tech engineering group providing solutions that enhance productivity, profitability and sustainability for the manufacturing, mining and infrastructure industries. We are at the forefront of digitalization and focus on optimizing our customers’ processes. Our world-leading offerings include equipment, tools, services and digital solutions for machining, mining, rock excavation and rock processing. In 2024 the Group had approximately 41,000 employees and revenues of about SEK 123 billion in about 150 countries within continuing operations. For more information, visit https://www.home.sandvik.
