EV growth will be hindered as locals’ revolt over lithium mining impacts on water supplies and environmental degradation in their communities.
Category: Technology
Ampol CEO: EV Prices Need to Halve to Interest Consumers
According to Aussie Ampol Chief Executive Matt Halliday, whose company is investing heavily in a charging network, Electric Vehicles are currently too expensive to replace Fossil Fuel powered vehicles as…
Claim: “AI Can’t Fix Climate Change, But It’s Great for Preparation”
How do we eliminate anthropogenic CO2 emissions? AI says “Easy – kill all the people”?
Connecticut Steps Up to Save The Planet
It’s really quite something when one of those big lithium-ion batteries suddenly explodes into flames. As usual with these lithium fires, they couldn’t extinguish it with water or anything else,…
US Electric Vehicle Sales Finally Catch Ford F-Series Pickup Trucks
Electric vehicle sales hit new record in Q2Despite supply shortages and high prices, many consumers are flocking to EVs. Published July 14, 2022 The number of battery-electric vehicles sold in…
Biden’s Transportation Department targets CO2 emissions of cars on highways to push EVs
the Biden Department of Transportation (DOT) proposed a rule targeting CO2 emissions from highway vehicles, for which DOT also has no legal authority.
E-Vehicles Are Like Covid Vaccines: Sold to Public Based on Wildly Unrealistic Exaggerations
In summary, by the time you’d reach your destination (if ever), your vacation would be long over. Gasoline, and especially diesel, leave electric vehicles in the dust.
Column: Summer Interrupted – A Good News Energy Story Amid the Carnage
The ability to increase throughputs by up to 10 percent has enormous repercussions, and if the alternative to moving that extra ten percent is building tens of billions of dollars…
Claim: Quantum Computing Magic can Solve the Climate Crisis
According to McKinsey and Company, Quantum Computing modelling can accelerate discovery of breakthrough technologies to solve the climate crisis. But is this an admission of how far we need to…
EV’s Fossil Fuel Economy No Better than ICE Vehicles
…But the price per mile of EVs energy use is cheaper for the time being ($2 per gallon of gas equivalent)
Top Producer Albemarle Risks Shutting German Plant if EU Declares Lithium a Hazard
Top lithium producer Albemarle Corp (ALB.N) may have to shut its Langelsheim plant in Germany if the metal used in electric vehicle batteries is declared a hazardous material by the European Union,…
Is It Ethical to Purchase An EV Lithium Battery Powered Vehicle?
With most of the exotic minerals and metals to build EV batteries being mined in developing countries, is it ethical to support the environmental degradation and humanity atrocities occurring in…
The World Bank’s Impractical Electric Car Claptrap
If the World Bank and British government follow through on their plan to ban the combustion engine, they may well have riots on their hands.
Battery Powered Flight–Still A Pipedream
As any aviation expert would have told her, battery powered flight has a fundamental obstacle, which it cannot overcome except for this sort of microlight, short range flight – the…
Electric Bus Catches Fire After Battery Explosion
This afternoon, the RATP decided to temporarily withdraw from circulation the 149 Bolloré electric bluebuses that circulate on its network.
China’s Blood Batteries
Are Electric Vehicles really clean? They run on dirty energy and blood of children as young as 6. Electric cars drive human rights abuse and child labour. China is one…
Vehicle Electrification
By Rud Istvan, This possible guest post was inspired by Andy May’s recent post concerning mainly internal engine combustion (ICE) alternatives. Since I am a SME in the general field…
More than half of all new UK cars to be electric by 2028 in bid to ditch petrol and diesel
If this is not an admission that for most drivers EVs are absolutely useless, I don’t know what is!
Claim: Electric Vehicles are being Shipped in Fire Retardant Bags
Orbital space vehicle re-entry grade fireproofing technology is being deployed to prevent Electric Vehicle batteries from creating another Felicity Ace disaster. My question – when are fire blankets going to…
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