I have been thinking (yeah a scary thing)...
People are worried about oil shortages and the energy crisis from lack of fossil fuels running out and think that Electric Vehicles (EVs) are the solution.
But the batteries and motors used in EVs all depend on rare elements: Lithium, Cobalt, Neodymium and Praseodymium. Once EVs become the standard vehicles on the road, we are going to be facing more and more shortages of the supply of these elements.
Are we just exchanging one shortage for another? Instead of the middle east controlling the oil are we going to have some other country (like China) controlling the energy supply?
People are worried about oil shortages and the energy crisis from lack of fossil fuels running out and think that Electric Vehicles (EVs) are the solution.
But the batteries and motors used in EVs all depend on rare elements: Lithium, Cobalt, Neodymium and Praseodymium. Once EVs become the standard vehicles on the road, we are going to be facing more and more shortages of the supply of these elements.
Are we just exchanging one shortage for another? Instead of the middle east controlling the oil are we going to have some other country (like China) controlling the energy supply?
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