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posted by martyb on Thursday November 02 2017, @12:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the getting-a-charge-out-of-minerals-speculation dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday November 02 2017, @04:38AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 02 2017, @04:38AM (#590884) Journal

    Anyway, I bet the legal nature of the battery market will lead to a solution

    Are you saying the lawyers will impose us to use lead batteries?

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