[rUsHeYaFuBu]

> There isn't enough materials on the planet

There is more than enough lithium on the planet for it.

Additionally, there's growing recycling technology and significant advances in battery technology and engineering the vehicle itself to be more efficient with the battery it's tied to. Structural and management systems for example.

There's also growing research and use cases for second-life applications for batteries no longer useful for an automotive application such as additional grid storage. Some key applications for this include grid balancing and lesson length of outages.

[hedora]

I worked this out a while back, based on the percentage of the earth’s crust that is lithium and the percentage of a car that is lithium.

I worked out that you could cover > 10% of the planet with EVs if Lithium was the only bottleneck resource.

The bigger problem is the environmental impact of extracting the lithium. My guess is that desalination plants would be a big part of my plan to cover the planet with EVs.

(We’ll probably need desalination anyway because we keep electing politicians that are intentionally causing increasingly severe droughts).

[rUsHeYaFuBu]

They often mention the environmental implicat of lithium mining. I wonder how that compares to the environmental impact of green house gasses though.