while the headline is a bit self-evident, the article itself covers a lot of interesting ground on the politics and practical implementation of doing this, and what places around the world are doing to try and reduce car usage

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    Except for one pesky problem: there is only enough lithium and cobalt to power a fraction of the world’s 1.5 billion motor vehicles electrically. And that’s just passenger vehicles. Not construction equipment, not agriculture, not the thousand other vehicular and non-vehicular demands for li-ion batteries.

    It’s mathematically impossible with current battery tech for everyone to be driving EV’s. Battery efficiency would need to improve by orders of magnitude for this to work.

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      We’ve got about a dozen battery technologies in late stage development right now, that problem is solved, it just needs funding. No point funding it when lithium is still available at reasonable prices.

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          CATL (massive Chinese battery manufacturer) has sodium-ion batteries coming to EVs later this year or next year.

          They don’t quite match lithium yet, but they’re close enough to be commercially viable already.