Posted on 02/07/2023 11:54:24 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (Reuters) - Automakers may not be able to build as many electric vehicles as they would like — and consumer demand for those EVs may not materialize as quickly as anticipated — if government and industry do not address and resolve a convergence of issues, a new study released on Tuesday said.
Among those roadblocks, a looming shortage of battery raw materials could put government mandates “in conflict with manufacturing reality” — one of the macro trends charted in the 2023 Moving World Report, published by investment firm UP.Partners.
Obstacles to the acceleration of EV production and demand in the United States include ongoing turmoil in global supply chains, insufficient vehicle charging infrastructure and an overloaded electrical grid, the 120-page report said.
The report notes that EV battery demand is expected to increase tenfold or more by 2030, but that a “massive dislocation” between demand and supply of key materials such as lithium, cobalt and nickel is likely to increase the cost of EVs to consumers — a stark finding as a global price war, ignited by leader Tesla, escalates.
The study is based on dozens of interviews and cites technical and financial data from research studies by the International Energy Agency, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, McKinsey, Silicon Valley Bank, Carnegie Mellon University and others.
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What the hell is ‘sustainable aviation’?
Government will ORDER everyone to buy an EV or else ,wow we’ve come a long way ,LOL
Basically, the Dims who are trying to force everyone to drive EV’s are the same Dims who block the mining and processing of rare-earths in the U.S. needed to make the EV’s.
Airplanes that stay in the sky?
Battery planes with flapping wings, duh!
No kidding. This rush to electrics is being done BEFORE any comprehensive, systematic feasibility analysis.
This whole government/industry/liberal green kook fetish is so bizarre. These types of articles and studies ALWAYS start with the premise “we MUST convert to electric everything” without ever asking “Should we? Do we really need to do this?”
This fetishism is going to put us at huge global industrial disadvantage and seriously destroy our global competitiveness. It also seriously endangers our national defense.
It is really obvious that there is no way to power a modern industrial nation entirely on very diffuse, low energy intensity, sporadic and intermittent wind and solar. It is impossible. The people pushing us in this direction are not engineers.
Gee, I don't know, but that smells an awful lot like fascism to me.
The reality has always been that gasoline / diesel powered vehicles will be outlawed. EVs will be high priced options only available to the feudal nobilities. Everyone else forced into highly dense urban environments with mass transit, bicycles, walking as the only transportation available.
I am not an expert, but clearly it means the airplane doesn't fall out of the sky.
Build more slave labor mines in third-world countries to Save The Planet, then. It makes as much sense as mandating physical impossibilities.
Well they have to come down some time. If they are too sustainable, it’s a problem.
It takes more than a feasibility analysis. They’ve done those, of course their consultants say it’s feasible. That’s what they were paid to say.
What is needed is a large scale successful demonstration project. This has NOT happened. In fact, everywhere this stuff has been pushed is having huge issues. Germany and UK in particular.
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Snickering here, this has been know from the beginning but ignored to prop up the launch of the scam.
It cannot be kept hidden and I hope it collapses the whole scheme.
Yep, that is going to hurt some folk financially but the sooner it crashes the less painful it will be.
Understatement of the year. I like to think that the majority of consumers can look at the things and see the glaringly obvious problems with the inferior (inferior to ICE) technology they represent.
Almost all government mandates are in conflict with reality. Some dim bulb gets an off the wall idea (which left on its own would never be accepted) and then the equally stupid lawmakers force people to do it. Like paying people not to work and paying people to have bastards just to name two
Sustainable aviation is a multi-disciplinary field that seeks solutions to improve the environmental and societal impacts of air transportation. It aims to reduce aviation’s contribution to climate change through new practices and radical innovation.
They are then using a 4 pillar strategy to achieve these goals; the four pillars are, new technology, more efficient operations, improved infrastructure and global market based measures for aviation emissions
https://forwardonclimate.org/popular-articles/what-are-the-4-pillars-of-aviation-sustainability/
You nailed it! ‘Sustainable Aviation’ is electric airplanes that can keep on flying after their batteries go dead.
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