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Old 05-08-2019, 11:02 AM   #5765 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by sendler View Post
We are running short of raw materials for batteries already and we have barely just begun to start replacing the 1 billion light vehicles on the road today.
"If automakers can't get battery cells and battery makers can't get the minerals they need to make them, the downward trend in the price of lithium batteries could be interrupted. That could delay not only the rollout of individual new models but also push back the time when electric vehicles reach cost parity with internal-combustion ones.

Anybody have an active mining claim to spare?"
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https://www.greencarreports.com/news...delay-some-evs
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*There are at least eleven different battery chemistries available,plus hydrogen fuel-cells.
*The Andes Mountains salt flats are full of Lithium.Also the world's oceans.
*What's the problem?
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