Dr. Peter Tom Jones, a materials scientist and clean-tech author, argues that Europe risks losing its electric vehicle industry to cheaper Chinese imports unless it builds its own supply chain from the ground up, starting with the raw materials. The film follows him on a road trip through the Nordic countries, visiting mining operations and processing sites tied to battery metals like lithium, nickel, and cobalt. Along the way he talks with engineers, miners, and industry figures about what it would actually take to extract, refine, and manufacture EV components on European soil rather than shipping ore abroad and buying back finished batteries. The trip doubles as an argument: that sustainability claims mean little if the mining and processing happen somewhere else, out of sight, and that Europe's climate ambitions are tangled up with questions of industrial sovereignty and geopolitical dependence on China. It stays grounded in specific sites and specific people rather than abstract policy debate, tracking one supply chain from rock to road.