Ice doesn’t go into EVs, but that one will be depleted within 30 years. Lithium is the most common element cited when that argument is raised: you can find tra

Ice doesn’t go into EVs, but that one will be depleted within 30 years. Lithium is the most common element cited when that argument is raised: you can find trace amounts in seawater, so the total amount is enormous, but the extraction cost will make that an expensive process. If there are large desalinisation efforts (to get fresh water) Lithium could be captured in that context. Copper, in spite of being very abundant, might actually be a problem (if you include electricity transport lines). My assumption is that the ecological impact of cars will be too great and increasingly obviously so. People will switch to public transport and bicycles, including electric bikes. But all that is overlooking the tiny detail that half of humanity will have to move or die. That part is probably the key element of context people forget to include in their speculation.