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Foolish investment, lithium batteries will be obsolete sooner rather then later. There are quite a few much better battery technologies on the way, faster charging, longer lasting and less polluting. Such as this one by the guy who invented lithium batteries.

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Its name is still a sham.

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Interesting. And optimistic.

Most amazing is that he is 97 and still cranking out futuristic ideas.

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That’s just one of a dozen, no telling which one will end up supplanting them, but I have little doubt one of them will.

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“Minutes instead of hours” would convince a lot of people. :+1:

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So would ditching cobalt and lithium.

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I guess we’ll have to spend more money

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This makes perfect sense to me

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https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/gm-lithium-americas-develop-thacker-pass-mine-nevada-2023-01-31/

GM would supplant China’s Ganfeng Lithium (002460.SZ) to become Lithium Americas’ largest shareholder.

Lithium Americas aims to extract lithium at Thacker Pass from a large clay deposit, something that has never been done before at commercial scale. The investment marks the second in as many years by the auto giant into novel lithium processes.

Chinese control supplanted and American innovation funded.

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I hope this works out well. Thanks for posting.

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Is the US switching to electric cars to avoid using oil?
Or for some other reason?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-24/storm-elliott-news-oil-is-main-fuel-for-power-plants-in-new-england

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My best friend’s granddad was a lineman his entire life.

Every time I see a photo like that with complete chaos on a light pole I’ll show it to him when I see him at the store.

He gets incredibly nauseated and gives a speech about every little thing wrong with it.

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Like this?

This grid is almost ready for EVS right?

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Done by an Axios reporter.

Not giving up my Camry.

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And once again, a hybrid (even one used stupidly to first drive as an EV only until the batteries are down) makes sense where an actual EV will not.

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We could’ve had hybrid cars with hydrogen fuel cells by now. :man_shrugging:

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Hydrogen powered engines (not fuel cells) have been practical for decades … but you cannot buy or sell the material … though if you are a physicist etc you can maybe make your own storage material.

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Rut Roh…Brits are abandoning electric cars.

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Toyota will use batteries it makes in North Carolina to manufacture EVs in the Kentucky plant, keeping the process in the U.S. from end to end. The company hopes to produce about 10,000 electric SUVs a month by the end of 2025, and 200,000 EVs annually in the U.S. starting in 2026, according to Nikkei.

IRA once again.

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Say no to toy cars

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