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More EV’s will be sold in China this year than the rest of the world combined. That’s where the action is.
by melling 8y ago
More EV’s will be sold in China this year than the rest of the world combined.
That’s where the action is.
- thefourthchime 8y agoThank god too. The pollution in Bejing is horrible.
- jordache 8y agohow much of the pollution in Beijing is contributed by gas vehicles? Curious...
- olivermarks 8y agoExactly, and given they have the battery ingredients in their land that's where the auto industry will quickly be based. It is also the largest automobile market on the planet
- Brakenshire 8y agoRare earths are not rare, the word refers to concentration of the element in the ore, not the prevalence of the ore. There are many countries that have large reserves, the US included, China has a monopoly because it subsidizes processing, in particular through dumping costs on the environment through little regulation of pollution, not because they are the only country with reserves.
- olivermarks 8y agoOnce we get to scale creation of battery tech enormous amounts of these ingredients will be needed and will be a production differentiator. Good article on harvesting the oceans 'Electric vehicles spur race to mine deep sea riches' https://www.ft.com/content/00b2e3c8-e2b0-11e8-a6e5-792428919cee https://www.ft.com/content/00b2e3c8-e2b0-11e8-a6e5-792428919...