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It would be interesting to see if lithium mining and production could be scaled up fast enough to produce 15+ million cars per year (US only). Something tells
by MR4D 9y ago
It would be interesting to see if lithium mining and production could be scaled up fast enough to produce 15+ million cars per year (US only).
Something tells me that this could be an ecological disaster even greater than coal.
The article may be correct on the rationale, but the timing seems fast given everyone's concern about the planet.
Also consider that oil comes from a small hole in the ground, and already has refineries in place to turn it into gasoline, while last year the whole world only produced about 650,000 tons of lithium. Each Tesla uses about 65Kg of it.
- sitkack 9y agoOne car is going to be able to service 4-10 people, old cars will still exist. Think of the transition from incandescent to fluorescent to LED, no one expected that LED would take over so soon, that the efficiencies and bulb life would surpass CFL as quickly. How many LED bulb assembly lines do we need? Probably 1. For the whole world.
- mywittyname 9y agoI think recycling will be a significant source of these metals by the time the world is producing 30+M EVs a year.