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Opinion: Will Lithium Be Our Next Energy Crisis?

Clean Fleet Report

EV Numbers Are Growing, But Their Batteries Need a Key Mineral. By 2035, all new cars and light-duty trucks sold in California must be zero-emission vehicles. EVs run on lithium-ion batteries. Even if immense effort is invested into this industry, we still don’t have enough supply for even one automaker’s battery factories.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

“I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. We will own the battery. We will always own the batteries,&# said Mr. Thesen. In effect, cars would be acting like tiny power stations.

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