Electric Vehicles

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Vercingetorix
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Electric Vehicles

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Each EV car battery requires about 25 pounds of Lithium.

There were 4.3 Million EV's built in 2022.

Using 107,500,000 lbs of Lithium

The price of Lithium has increased by over 500% close to 600%, in the past 2 years.

The earth has 28,000,000,000 lbs of available Lithium

At present production rates of 100 Million cars around the world

We have about 11 years of global supply of Lithium.

This doesnt include ANYTHING elese we use Lithium for.
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I'm old enough to remember the peak oil hoax.
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Charlie Mike wrote: December 17th, 2022, 5:23 am I'm old enough to remember the peak oil hoax.
I'm old enough to remember the "Russian Collusion" Hoax; the "Ukrainian Blackmail" Hoax, the "Insurrection" Hoax, the "Russian Hookers/Pee Tapes" Hoax, the "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" Hoax, the "George Zimmerman stalked Trayvon" Hoax and many others.
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That’s is a key driver for new battery technologies.
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Vercingetorix wrote: December 16th, 2022, 2:47 pm We have about 11 years of global supply of Lithium.
Vercingetorix,

Maybe, maybe not.

Endangered Flower May Wipe Out Nevada Lithium Mine
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/gre ... thium-mine

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Charlie Mike wrote: December 17th, 2022, 5:23 am I'm old enough to remember the peak oil hoax.
Which one? Peak oil has been claimed several times in the past. (Akin to climate doomer tipping points.)
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