Under today’s technology, it’s worse than that. There are not anywhere near enough known reserves for the needs being projected under an “all battery“ scenario.
- Mark Sent from my Fuel Cell powered iPhone > On Apr 4, 2021, at 1:08 PM, (-Phil-) via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > I keep mentioning it, but most people apparently don't get it: > > The biggest problem is there simply isn't enough battery production > capacity to convert the whole fleet to 100% electric yet. > > It's a classic chicken and egg problem; battery production has a long tail > requiring more mining and refining capacity, which nobody will build > overnight. > > Even Tesla says despite their best planning; they are production > constrained because of battery cells. > > This is why a true hybrid (plug in) can help bridge the gap. I advocate > for 100% EV adoption, and have been doing so for over 30 years before there > were any production EVs, but sadly this problem still exists. > > >> On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 11:46 AM EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On 4 Apr 2021 at 14:23, Robert Bruninga via EV wrote: >>> >>> During my EV eganguelising I am forever correcting people who think a >>> hybrid is an EV. It is not. But a plugin hybrid is. We have to >>> correct those mistakes wherever they occur. >> >> I've been fighting this battle since the Piius came out in 1997. It's >> futile, and by now I'm sure that most of you are rolling your eyes, but I >> just can't seem to let it go. >> >> IMO if all of a vehicle's motive energy comes from fuel burned in an ICE, >> it's not a hybrid, period. Vehicles such as the Prius are essentially >> somewhat feeble ICEVs made more powerful with electric superchargers. >> >> I had a long argu - uh, discussion with a mechanic a while back. He >> declared that the quasi-hybrids like the Prius were pointless because "by >> the time I work on them they're all running totally on their gas engines." >> Well, duh! I tried to explain that that's the way they're SUPPOSED to >> run, >> but he wasn't having it. >> >> Twenty+ years ago, some of us thought that the quasi-hybrids (then just >> the >> Toyota Prius and Honda Insight) might be useful for getting "normal" >> vehicle >> buyers accustomed to the idea of EVs. You may disagree, but I don't think >> that they did much. What DID get real world ICE-heads thinking that EVs >> might be OK was the Tesla S. >> >> David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey >> >> To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my >> offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt >> >> = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = >> One of the problems with modern society is that it places >> more importance on things that have a price than on things >> that have a value. >> >> -- Pablo Fajardo >> = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Address messages to [email protected] >> No other addresses in TO and CC fields >> UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >> ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ >> LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210404/346e9bc4/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to [email protected] > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
