Sabine Hossenfelder Rains On EV The Parade – Price tag to upgrade the grid for t

Sabine Hossenfelder Rains On EV The Parade
https://t.co/0Q3asqEX04
– Price tag to upgrade the grid for the demand in electric cars tesimates range from 7 to 20 TRILLION dollars.
– And then, we still have to create the energy?
– Fueling electric vehicles with coal is worse than continuing use of petroleum. An electric vehicle would need to be driven 80k miles in most countries to be break even while working toward ‘net zero’.
– EV’s take 6x minerals as conventional vehicles. With Lithium and Cobalt the main constraint. Almost all cobalt comes from the DRC (conflict).
– Prices of EVs will increase.
– And then there is the problem of recycling the batteries.

(Net: this really needs to be spread out over a century, and will require nuclear reactors, and new power lines.)

(FWIW: I’m not buyin’ it – the timeline is’ just not reasonable.)