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The Coming Lithium Shortage
The gist of the paper is that there is not enough lithium carbonate and lithium chloride -- the two key salts used to formulate lithium metal for advanced batteries -- in the world to produce the necessary batteries to convert the world's gasoline and diesel fleet to HEV0 (conventional hybrids), PHEVs and battery electric vehicles or BEVs. And even if there were sufficient deposits, most of which are located above 3000 meters in the Bolivian, Chilean and Argentine Andes in ancient dry lake beds, at current rates of worldwide production it would take 75 years to build one billion 5kWh battery packs. http://priuschat.com/forums/prius-hybrid... Rating :
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usshrs: Many articles clearly wrong. As we found here...
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14-Apr-09 12:52 pm | |||
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many articles clearly pointing out the world does not h...
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not possible...hello, not enough lithium. nimh not goin...
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oum_shanti: Uhh, a well designed electric car can be c...
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13-Apr-09 11:01 am | |||
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Lithium electrics are to expensive for mass production....
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demi/ecdfan,
This imaginary friend thing of yours is...
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(2 Ratings) | 13-Apr-09 01:53 am | |||
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sell2lo: Ok, be it your way. So 35 million tons of li...
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12-Apr-09 11:55 pm | |||
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< Let's say you need 200 kgs for an electric car. > (ec...
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(2 Ratings) | 12-Apr-09 11:45 pm | |||
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usshrs: Many articles talked about housing prices neve...
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12-Apr-09 10:11 pm | |||
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The electric car is screwed. Not nearly enough lithium....
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(1 Rating) | 12-Apr-09 10:00 pm | |||
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usshrs: Not, not like copper vs gold. NiMH is too hea...
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12-Apr-09 08:49 pm | |||
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it's like wiring a house. we use copper instead of gold...
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(1 Rating) | 12-Apr-09 08:44 pm | |||
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usshrs: I am sure you are dying to convince us that nu...
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11-Apr-09 08:49 pm | |||
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ur numbers are misleading and backward looking as are a...
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(1 Rating) | 11-Apr-09 08:44 pm | |||
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usshrs: No, it is not drying up. Every cell phone, mp...
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11-Apr-09 07:46 pm | |||
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The supply of lithium is drying up and the price to ext...
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(2 Ratings) | 11-Apr-09 07:42 pm | |||
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usshrs: Well they use 6000 li-ion cells - let's sat th...
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11-Apr-09 07:34 pm | |||
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usshrs: What's too expensive? Show me one electric ca...
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11-Apr-09 07:28 pm | |||
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too expensive
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Rate it | 11-Apr-09 06:29 pm | |||
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they sale very few and not possible to satisfy any amou...
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