May 22, 2023 01:37 PM
https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/en...ottleneck/
INTRO: A modelling study looking at electric vehicles has found that the resources to produce them will be significantly strained in the next few years. The researchers suggest that to stop the worst of the bottleneck will take an overhaul – we need to change the way we think about our cars and cities.
“It seems very likely we’ll have a shortage,’ says Fernando Aguilar Lopez, a renewable energy researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
“The key lies in the demand. The demand needs to decrease to avoid long-term supply problems.”
The researchers used a model called MATerIaL Demand and Availability (MATILDA) to analyse at how lithium and other elements will be available from the extraction phase, all the way through to production, use, and scrapping. They looked at more than 8,000 scenarios in the paper has just been published in Resources, Conservation and Recycling.
Although there’s plenty of lithium, cobalt, nickel and phosphorus in the ground, the problem lies in mining... (MORE - details)
INTRO: A modelling study looking at electric vehicles has found that the resources to produce them will be significantly strained in the next few years. The researchers suggest that to stop the worst of the bottleneck will take an overhaul – we need to change the way we think about our cars and cities.
“It seems very likely we’ll have a shortage,’ says Fernando Aguilar Lopez, a renewable energy researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
“The key lies in the demand. The demand needs to decrease to avoid long-term supply problems.”
The researchers used a model called MATerIaL Demand and Availability (MATILDA) to analyse at how lithium and other elements will be available from the extraction phase, all the way through to production, use, and scrapping. They looked at more than 8,000 scenarios in the paper has just been published in Resources, Conservation and Recycling.
Although there’s plenty of lithium, cobalt, nickel and phosphorus in the ground, the problem lies in mining... (MORE - details)