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There Won’t Be Enough Batteries to Fulfill the Industry’s EV Promises

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Maybe we should just go back to horses:cool:
 


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Ill stick to my filthy dinosaur remnants thank you.
 


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There is not enough raw materials to fulfill the industry’s EV promises. If every person driving today switched to EV the amount of resources needed to be mined would be devastating to our environment. It takes a lot more rare resources to produce EVs then ICE. When it comes to saving the environment EVs are one step forward two steps backward.
 


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Interesting read, yet one more piece of the overall infastructure that can't and won't support the concept of EVs.
 


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Can’t wait until we get everyone back to work so they go home and plug all of them in for the evening and they brown out everything west of Nebraska. They will listen to us then.
 


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As usual, powers that be putting the cart before the horse without considering ramifications. All on the back of tax payers.
 


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I like the horse idea!

I ride far more hours, than I drive now, so wouldn't bother me. If its too far for horseback, go via helicopter I say.
 


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Can’t wait until we get everyone back to work so they go home and plug all of them in for the evening and they brown out everything west of Nebraska. They will listen to us then.
Same for a lot of the older inner cites on the east coast. Many of the older houses don't have the electrical systems to handle the load, and would need retrofitted. And that doesn't even begin to address the parking problems of the inner city. There is no assigned street parking, so there is no guarantee that you will be able to park in front of your house to even be able to use your charger.

This is also true in many of the suburban areas, especially those with apartment complexes and town houses. How is someone on the 3rd floor apartment going to charge their car? Who is going to pay for all the chargers to be installed at the complex and how will the cost of charging be allocated?

All the soundbites from the talking heads sound great on the evening news or on a social media post, but the reality is far more in-depth.
 


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Once upon a time, okay in the last few years, up till 2 weeks ago, I knew a bunch of people who switched to an electric car. Every last one of them has sold it, and gone back to gas powered. My mother in law just sold her tesla about 11 days ago, and is now driving a VW suv, with gas engine.
 


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I'm going to buy a golf cart when I retire :LOL:

not an EV.....a for real golf cart.
 


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They aren't even counting all the megawatts of lithium batteries for utility power storage for wind and solar they want to build. Better whip those child cobalt laborers a little harder.
 




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