AUTOLINE ON AUTOBLOG: The Downside to Lithium Batteries
August 27th, 2008 at 9:00am
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Uh-oh. In the pell-mell race to develop lithium-ion batteries for plug-ins, EVs and hybrids, has any automaker taken a hard look at where all that lithium is going to come from? Guess what? Not only are global lithium supplies . . .
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August 27th, 2008 at 10:16 am
So John McElroy,
When can we expect your interview with T Boone Pickens so you can pose this lithium delima problem to him?
August 27th, 2008 at 10:19 am
That should have been “dilemma”
August 28th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Another intelligent human trying to get his name in the spotlight John.
September 1st, 2008 at 11:51 pm
You’ve changed my thinking on lithium batteries.
One, is the the price will not come down the fast–if at all.
Two, we appear to be changing our dependancy from oil to dependancy fromthose who manufacter lithium batteries or mine the raw materials.
Maybe cars using flyweheels or air compression are the way to go.
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Tom Martin ,
Do you have any insight as to the huge amound of friction to using CNG for the small car market?