Energy Matters:
A couple of weeks ago, French Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot announced that petrol and diesel car production would cease in France by 2040. Last week UK Environment Minister Michael Gove followed suit on behalf of the UK. Currently electric cars are dependent on Lithium Ion batteries for their on-board store of energy and this obviously raises questions about supplies of Lithium (Li), and as luck would have it a comprehensive report on this topic fell into my mail box last week. The report Raw material needs by the Li-ion battery industry by Dr P. Kauranen is available online and in this post I want to provide a simple and partial summary of that report whilst adding information from other sources.
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