This article actually peers behind the curtain of the issues involved and asks the right questions:
Lithium is far from the only problem that makes electric vehicle conversion plans a total fantasy.
Electricity production would have to vastly increase, and solar or wind just can’t provide that kind of power. So, how are we going to provide these increase power demand?
Burn more coal? Natural gas? Nuclear power?
How about those new factories to build those cars and batteries?
The whole program is a giant fraud that can never be accomplished. The environmental toll for all those mines, power stations, transmission lines and factories is so huge that they will never be permitted. Then, there is whole issue of disposing of those toxic batteries when they reach the end of the useful lives.
“There is not enough electrical power in the United States to power the cars if everyone converts to EVs.”
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electric_overview/US48/US48
Look at the graph U.S. electricity generation by energy source. Anything within and above the sinusoid curve for natural gas is potentially available for car recharging.
Let’s us underestimate at say 50,000 megawatts for eight hours, or 50,000,000khw for eight hours.
That’s somewhere around ~4kwh (~16 miles per day) for about 100 million cars.
It comes fairly close. It’s going to be decades to replace the gasoline car fleet. There’s time to build more natural gas power plants, and to install solar-based recharging systems in and around daytime workplaces.
“Lithium is far from the only problem that makes electric vehicle conversion plans a total fantasy.
Electricity production would have to vastly increase, and solar or wind just can’t provide that kind of power. So, how are we going to provide these increase power demand?”
We? Sounds like you have a mouse in your pocket. We ain’t providing any increase if enviro’s have any say.
One might even think someone at GM might have asked the same question before stating the impossible.
mini Nuc-Plants are on the table.