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Originally Posted by b0son
Trouble is electric itself is not a real option. Its rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic until we can generate base load using renewables or nuclear.
And arguably, the battery tech, if required to support a significant proportion of the worlds vehicles, is going to do terrible things to the environment, as well as create economic problems as the materials from which they're made are hardly renewable.
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This is something I came across while researching global lithium/cobalt stocks & geographic supplies before November/December's meteoric rises. The stuff is not accessible everywhere, and is finite like many other minerals. Processing it requires some engineering skill and specialised design (was good to see Aussie companies out there at the leading edge). We will need something more easily abundant, maybe thats where the sodium will come in. Did Tesla change the constituency of its batteries recently as well, having less cobalt in them?