01-12-2023, 10:33 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Little Rock, AR
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Originally Posted by DrewK
This is a fascinating thread.
My major concern with PHEV’s and EV’s, and really anything with a giant battery, is our dependency on a Communist country (China). Last I read, China controls 75% of the world’s capacity of lithium production (or production of lithium products, I can’t remember).
What happens when China decides they don’t like us?
I suppose the same could happen now when the Middle East decides they have enough money and they don’t want to export any more fossil fuels...
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Battery makers are ready to switch to Sodium instead of lithium. They've also figured out a way to make them last as much as ten times longer.
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Chris
Little Rock, AR
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