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There isn’t enough lithium to make batteries to replace the US fleet, let alone the rest of the world. ICE will be here for a while. That’s not to mention the c
by virmundi 7y ago
There isn’t enough lithium to make batteries to replace the US fleet, let alone the rest of the world. ICE will be here for a while. That’s not to mention the carbon and pollution output of creating new evs.
- WhompingWindows 7y agoThis is just incorrect, lithium is not the limiting factor for EV adoption. Currently, much bigger are cobalt supply, manufacturing capacity, and the un-priced externalities of carbon pollution. If you freed up those 3 factors, batteries would scale up ridiculously quickly, though yes admittedly in 2019 we can not simultaneously replace 300+ million cars instantly.