Help! Save the environment from the electric car.

[brandwooddixon]

The title is really my take on it, but I came across this today.

The analysis by Prof Herrington and his colleagues, published in journal Nature Reviews Materials, reports that switching Britain’s 31.5m petrol and diesel vehicles to battery power will require 264,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate, 207,900 tonnes of cobalt, 7,200 tonnes of neodymium and dysprosium, and 2.4m tonnes of copper. These amounts represent twice the annual current global production of cobalt, an entire year of neodymium production and 75 per cent of world production of lithium.

So how likely is Boris' target of ending sales of internal combustion engines for cars?
This is just for the cars, ignoring the materials needed for a National Grid upgrade.
More importantly it is just for the UK, let alone world wide.

 

[ioweddie]

 

[A.J.]

The title is really my take on it, but I came across this today.

So how likely is Boris' target of ending sales of internal combustion engines for cars?
This is just for the cars, ignoring the materials needed for a National Grid upgrade.
More importantly it is just for the UK, let alone world wide.

That just goes to prove that they are a very long way from being green.

 

[LostKiwi]

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Were These Electric Cars Abandoned Because Their Batteries Failed?

An anti-electric car post shows the results of a failed business model rather than a failed technology.

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