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15.8% of new light vehicles sold globally are already electric, this number will grow in 2024

you also didn’t tell me which necessary raw materials do not exist

the economic research institute IW Cologne regularly screens raw material shortages, especially for electric cars. Cobalt is an immense scarcity factor here.
Www.iwkoeln.de

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did you know Tesla recycles 100% of their batteries?

https://www.tesla.com/en_ca/support/sustainability-recycling

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169 sats \ 1 reply \ @gmd 18 Apr 2024

Very cool article on Tesla Cofounder's recycling company that came out today- allegedly 95% recycling efficiency:

https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/tesla-co-founder-jb-straubel-has-built-an-ev-battery-colossus

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yeah that’s pretty cool!

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Yes, recycling can help. But transforming the global fleer of cars one by one?? I think hybrids will be growing fast

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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr 18 Apr 2024

one by one is the only way to transform a fleet of gas cars to electric ones.

if there was a way to short hybrid vehicles, i’d go all in.

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Really?? This would be terrible for Germany if this comes true... but they are used to bad news

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