Gets worse - those EVs require computer chips and *those* are now in shorter supply. Once the current inventory of EVs and their parts sells through, they’re going to be in the same constraints as gas cars, if not worse.
Oh, that’s OK. We don’t produce enough electricity ro run all those EVs anyway.
China produces 20% of the lithium. What about the other 80%??
Does the US produce any?? what about Canada?? or South America???
Yah.
And, I wonder who is sitting on the mineral rights within the US. No Doubt another offshoring opportunity for the parasites in congress — use envir rules to suppress domestic production so that more $$ can be directed thru the CCP — and skimmed by them and their relatives.
That’s with less than 1% of our vehicles as EV’s.
Need to kill this EV Lithium market, there other options
There is some lithium in the U.S. Biden Admin is opposed to mining. As with everything else, Biden wants to increase U.S. dependency on foreign countries.
So how are we to replace all these vehicles with electric cars when there is not enough lithium? Of course asking for a friend.......
For perspective, it appears that the lithium-ion batteries used in EVs contain roughly 2 lbs of lithium per kWh, so a vehicle with a 100kWh battery would need 200 pounds (0.1 tons) of lithium.
50 years ago in my first engineering design class the instructor walked through the economics of using aluminum in autos. With less weight the fuel economy would increase. The car would last longer, etc. The savings would more than pay for the added cost of aluminum. Then about 5 minutes before the class ended he wrote on the board the number of tons of aluminum that would be needed. Below that he wrote the total number of tons of aluminum produced worldwide. Of course there was not enough aluminum produced. The lesson being that an engineer needs to look as a project from all angles.
“Lithium is no longer available on credit.”
I already was thinking about this problem. The limits of the supply, that will be the wall that will be hit in trying to convert to total EV’s. They are going to have to find a new energy source and it can’t be batteries.
Chances are there are great Lithium Deposits in Afghanistan but to mine anything will require 10’s of Billions in investment and a standing army to protect the mining companies. The infastructure required will be tremendous before any mining can even take place.
Also necessary in the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
Not to worry. When we get to 10% EV saturation the electric power grid will crash and the entire nation will be in brownouts.
Nothing better to ruin humanity than humans.