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Old 07-11-2017, 02:10 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Battery crunch coming

Volkswagen says it needs the equivalent of 40 "gigafactories" worth of batteries by 2025 for 3 million electric cars/ year. 200GWh per year.
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"Assuming other automakers prepare similar electric-vehicle sales goals, VW predicts a total of 1.5 terawatt-hours will be required within the global automotive industry."
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Do we have enough Lithium? Cobalt? We need to focus on gravity/ railroad for grid storage (and nuclear which needs no storage) to save the batteries for transportation.
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VW says it needs '40 gigafactories' for electric-car batteries by 2025
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