Wait until the price of electric vehicles double or triple due to the increased cost of batteries. Even the cost of a battery replacement for them is going to skyrocket.
I use Dewalt battery powered tools. Last year replacement batteries were $70 for the 4Ah.. I recently went to buy a battery at Lowe's. The price ranged from $140 for the 2Ah to $229 for the 6Ah. I didn't buy any batteries and I'm looking for alternatives.
She's 1/2 right. Zimbabwe is going to stop exporting unrefined lithium ore, but they didn't say they were going to stop exporting lithium. They plan to refine it in-country...at a much higher price, no doubt. god only knows how long it will take them to build the facilities to smelt it, but as long as China isn't financing them, we aren't completely fucked....except CA, they are still fucked.
Zimbabwe is going to refine in-country? This is the country that can't grow food?
Lemme guess. The refineries will be built and run by... the Red Chinese, the lithium will be sold... to the Red Chinese. All profits will go... to the Red Chinese, minus payouts to the local strongmen.
AH HA! . In the last few seconds of the video, it's revealed. Why Ray Ban Joe, Hunter, the Democrats and many Republicans appear to be willing to see Americans go broke and even die for Ukraine. It's all about the Lithium Lebowski.
Meanwhile, Honda has been skeptical of EV's, and doesn't believe they are worth betting the company on. They just recently demonstrated their hydrogen combustion engine, which looks a heck of a lot like a 327 crate motor, except for the unusual manifold on top of the block. The downside of hydrogen is the fuel cell (which is heavy) but you can refill the fuel cell in minutes, not like a 3 hour recharge for batteries. Oh, and Porsche has synthesized standard pump gas out of water and converts the base methanol into gasoline. Problem is it costs about $8 a gallon and they are only going to produce about 30,000 gallons initially this year to demonstrate in their race program, but synthetic gasoline is now a legitimate thing.
Synthetic petroleum has been around for a very long time (South Africa has been creating fuel from coal for decades) via variations of the Fischer-Tropsch process. The biggest drawback from widespread usage is cost, as it's cheaper and easier to process crude oil into fuel. However, I believe it's going to become more attractive in the near future especially when EVs continues its historical standards and doesn't live up to expectations.
The American, European, and Japanese had consortia during the Aughties, all were looking at fuel cell autos. There were functional versions of existing vehicles, to the degree that they gave prototypes out for real world testing, to rave reviews. Then 0bama came in and forced the Big Three to shut it down, and gave them incentives to roll with crappy EVs.
Her and her husband run a small engine repair shop and she put out videos on different issues and repairs. I've learned more about small engines from her in the past couple years than I did the previous 50 years.
This is a good thing. Lithium is the wrong chemistry for a stable and affordable battery powered future. If Lithium becomes scarce and unaffordable then some other process will be developed that uses another element. Or we'll just start building the Atomic power cells that I was told we'd have when I was a kid.
I use Dewalt battery powered tools. Last year replacement batteries were $70 for the 4Ah.. I recently went to buy a battery at Lowe's. The price ranged from $140 for the 2Ah to $229 for the 6Ah. I didn't buy any batteries and I'm looking for alternatives.
ReplyDeleteBite the bullet and buy them. After market batteries suck and they aren't going to get any cheaper.
DeleteShe's 1/2 right. Zimbabwe is going to stop exporting unrefined lithium ore, but they didn't say they were going to stop exporting lithium. They plan to refine it in-country...at a much higher price, no doubt. god only knows how long it will take them to build the facilities to smelt it, but as long as China isn't financing them, we aren't completely fucked....except CA, they are still fucked.
ReplyDeleteCA loves to be fucked....
DeleteZimbabwe is going to refine in-country? This is the country that can't grow food?
DeleteLemme guess. The refineries will be built and run by... the Red Chinese, the lithium will be sold... to the Red Chinese. All profits will go... to the Red Chinese, minus payouts to the local strongmen.
Refined lithium From Zimbabwe,
Delete“We pick the dead kids that mine out before we ship it, now!”
AH HA! . In the last few seconds of the video, it's revealed. Why Ray Ban Joe, Hunter, the Democrats and many Republicans appear to be willing to see Americans go broke and even die for Ukraine. It's all about the Lithium Lebowski.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, Honda has been skeptical of EV's, and doesn't believe they are worth betting the company on. They just recently demonstrated their hydrogen combustion engine, which looks a heck of a lot like a 327 crate motor, except for the unusual manifold on top of the block. The downside of hydrogen is the fuel cell (which is heavy) but you can refill the fuel cell in minutes, not like a 3 hour recharge for batteries. Oh, and Porsche has synthesized standard pump gas out of water and converts the base methanol into gasoline. Problem is it costs about $8 a gallon and they are only going to produce about 30,000 gallons initially this year to demonstrate in their race program, but synthetic gasoline is now a legitimate thing.
ReplyDeleteSynthetic petroleum has been around for a very long time (South Africa has been creating fuel from coal for decades) via variations of the Fischer-Tropsch process. The biggest drawback from widespread usage is cost, as it's cheaper and easier to process crude oil into fuel. However, I believe it's going to become more attractive in the near future especially when EVs continues its historical standards and doesn't live up to expectations.
DeleteSerious research into hydrogen fuel cells seems like a sensible path to take. So we know it will all get shut down.
DeleteThe American, European, and Japanese had consortia during the Aughties, all were looking at fuel cell autos. There were functional versions of existing vehicles, to the degree that they gave prototypes out for real world testing, to rave reviews. Then 0bama came in and forced the Big Three to shut it down, and gave them incentives to roll with crappy EVs.
DeleteBoy is she annoying to listen to....an 8 minute video that should have been 22 seconds.
ReplyDeleteHer and her husband run a small engine repair shop and she put out videos on different issues and repairs. I've learned more about small engines from her in the past couple years than I did the previous 50 years.
DeleteAll by DESIGN!
ReplyDeleteThis is a good thing. Lithium is the wrong chemistry for a stable and affordable battery powered future. If Lithium becomes scarce and unaffordable then some other process will be developed that uses another element.
ReplyDeleteOr we'll just start building the Atomic power cells that I was told we'd have when I was a kid.