OT: Electric Vehicles--anyone driving them or seriously looked at them?

[bikinchris]

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...

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.