by Tyler Durden
Tuesday, Aug 03, 2021 - 08:45 PM
The conversation about lithium ion batteries has been so disproportionately focused on how "green" they can help the world become, nary a word is said about the trade-offs of implementing them at scale.
Just over the last two months, we've written not only about how much driving needs to be done in EVs to make them better for the environment than internal combustion engine vehicles, but we've also noted that EV carbon footprints aren't necessarily as better than ICE vehicles as many people think.
And it was no sooner than yesterday that we wrote a piece laying out concerns around metals used in the growing production of EV batteries. We noted that the industry was trying to solve the problem of creating a circular economy for the components, as a growing demand for EVs could eventually result in a crunch for the metals.