Will there be enough to build all the electric vehicles?
Global demand for cobalt and nickel, two of the essential elements in electric car batteries, has never been higher. But where do all those metals come from? And do we even have enough for our electrified future? The answers to those questions are getting increasingly complex.
Reuters and Bloomberg both have stories out today on the metals and, as Reuters reports, while demand for nickel keeps increasing, half the world's nickel supply is too low in quality to use for car batteries.
All of which is going to have seismic effect on the world's suppliers. In short: There will be winners and losers, and the winners will be the ones with the highest-grade stuff—not unlike, I suppose, the illicit drugs market.
Do you feel fearful, uncertain, and doubtful about the future of electric cars?
(Score: 5, Funny) by bob_super on Thursday November 02 2017, @01:35AM (1 child)
You can get the extreme-right to do it, by promising those materials are clear proof that Hillary is guilty of something.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @02:38AM
Natsocs wanted Hillary elected to accelerate the collapse of the current U.S. hegemony. Instead we got Trump. People confuse the autist-right with actual "Nazis" because of the general ignorance that the populace has. This stupidity is endemic of democracies; average people should not govern themselves. Not that they really ever have. It's just easier to herd sheep when they think they're going somewhere that they want to go.