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Originally Posted by Calamari
Not to mention that mining of lithium is mostly done in Australia, and the guys down under say that even with their best efforts to increase the supply of Lithium in the coming decade they will not be even close to meet the projected demand. Even with their maximum effort of expanding existing mines and opening new ones, there will not be enough Lithium to produce the batteries needed to power even 10% of all cars in the world in 10 years. The same goes for Chile which is the second largest miner of Lithium.
Furthermore, an elephant in the room is India. The biggest population in the world and fastest growing economy in the world. They will need hundreds of millions of cars in this century and they can only afford ICE cars and fossil fuels/nuclear to meet their fast growing energy needs. They will not bother with expensive green energy as they cannot afford it for at least 2 or 3 decades. Indians want a better life for them and their children, and no one can force them to limit their growth for the sake of ecology. With hundreds of millions of new ICE cars driving in India in this century, anyone thinking that EVs being driven in developed countries will make any difference in reducing global emmissions is delusional.
West should be investing heavily in nuclear energy and development of even cleaner and more efficient ICE engines instead of slowly killing their car manufacturers by forcefully pushing them to manufacture EVs that need expensive imported parts and raw materials produced and processed in China or other countries half a globe away. (Incidentally, this increases pollution in China and other mining countries even nore. But conveniently, we are not bothered much about that).
Already today we have diesel engines in BMWs (and other cars too) that meet Euro6D emission standard. These engines are equipped with EGRs and DPFs that eliminate so much NOx and other fine particles from the exhaust that the air coming out of the car is cleaner than the air being sucked into the engine in most German cities most of.the year. On top of that, CO2 levels for diesels are very low, especially relative to the engine load(in other words- compared to the car's speed). The most efficient engine to move cars on highway speeds by far is diesel. (especially in Europe when 150-160km/h(100mph) is perfectly normal crusing speed on most highways. EVs, on the other hand, are significantly less efficient as the speed increases. Their range drops drastically when driving above 120km/h. They spend much much more energy per travelled kilometer than diesel engines on highway speeds. And all of that additional energy EVs are spending on highways is rarely mentioned when talking about environmental impacts of EVs.
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How dare you burden ideologues with facts.