This whole move towards renewables, electric cars, green energy is great. However I am not sure it can realistically happen without some huge (not incremental)

This whole move towards renewables, electric cars, green energy is great. However I am not sure it can realistically happen without some huge (not incremental) breakthrough in the battery/electronics technology. Let's look on UK only plan for this, If they to replace all currently used cars with electric ones (assuming they use the most resource-frugal next-generation batteries), it would take the following: - 207,900 tonnes of cobalt - just under twice the annual global production - 264,600 tonnes of lithium carbonate (LCE) - three quarters the world's production - at least 7,200 tonnes of neodymium and dysprosium - nearly the entire world production of neodymium - 2,362,500 tonnes of copper - more than half the world's production in 2018 source: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/june/we-need-more-metals-and-elements-reach-uks-greenhouse-goals.html https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/june/we-need-more-m... And this is just UK.