20 Sep
2016
20 Sep
'16
12:47 p.m.
On Tuesday 20. September 2016 09.36.39 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
thanks to idiots like elon musk the world's politicians and most people *genuinely* believe that there is enough lithium, neodymium and copper on the planet for every man, woman and child to own an electric vehicle.
I don't really want to weigh in on a topic that I don't have any specific interest or expertise in, but my impression was (Musk aside) that nobody really expects battery technology to stick with lithium or "rare earths". Here, progress in materials science appears to be driving development towards more mundane materials.
Paul