Janic wrote:10/03/23, 10:08]In fact, all the materials come into consideration: Al, Cu but also those necessary for the significant multiplication of batteries.
We have already reported this past year 2022 the increase in the ton of Lithium, to $80/ton!
and the explosion in the price of copper and the extractive overexploitation, a major source of CO2, but obviously it's the fault of the foreign countries that do it, we only count what we pollute directly (that is to say almost nothing! )
to make matters worse, the automobile industry will cost users dearly, but isn't this voluntary on the part of environmentalists who have devoted 60 years of fierce hatred to this symbol of the "consumer society"?
we must stop this discourse on ecologists even though there are lots of ways of perceiving ecology according to personal points of view.Indeed what fierce hatred are you talking about?, It sounds like the speech of the provaxx against what they call the antivaxx, which is ridiculous![/quote]
Agreed, it is all those metal ores and rare earths whose high demand in the future will induce new mines and sustained if not high cost levels.
Indeed, there are 1001 ways to define oneself as an ecologist, but it remains a "when to oneself".
However, those who we hear (and read) a lot in the public space, because of their political positions, especially in the European Parliament, which define many things with regard to the future of the automobile and the systematic electrification of uses, which are those concerned by my remarks.
I could add the maximalist nucleolatrists to it...