The Big Lie Is the Transition to EV Vehicles

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Mark P. Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.

California Insider interviewed Mark Mills and asked him if it was possible to transition to EV vehicles by 2035 when the sale of gas-powered cars will be banned in California.

Drilling machine makes bore holes for explosives in open cast mine. Lithium Mine in Western Australia.
Mills responded:

“There is no such thing as a zero-emissions vehicle.

“You have to dig up about 500,000 pounds of materials to make a single 1000-pound battery. It takes 100 to 300 barrels of oil to manufacture a battery that can hold one barrel of oil equivalent of energy. Just manufacturing the battery can have a debt rate ranging from 10 tons to 40 tons of CO2. And the plans that are in place to increase the use of batteries will require an increase in production of minerals like Lithium, Cobalt, Zinc. Demand for those minerals will increase between 400% and 4000%. There isn’t enough mining in the world to make enough batteries for that many people for their cars,” he said.

Democrats know this can’t work.

Watch:


The Chinese communists have cornered the rare metal market. Take Lithium for example. It is in short supply, and the prices are going insane. That doesn’t even begin to address the cleanup from the mines and the dead batteries. The demand is already outpacing supply.

Bloomberg reports:

For over a year, a semiconductor shortage has battered the auto industry, creating supply strains and sending prices for both chips and cars soaring. Now, carmakers are preparing for another bottleneck: lithium, a key element in electric car batteries. Electric car sales are at an all-time high, with companies including Tesla, Volkswagen, and Mercedes all posting record shipments in the first three months of 2022.

But because of the surge in demand, experts are unsure whether enough lithium is available. “In the next two years, even though there will be significant growth in supply, it will be less than demand, so the gap will just continue to grow,” lithium and mining expert Joe Lowry, who has earned the nickname Mr. Lithium, recently said in an interview with Bloomberg.

Only a handful of countries mine Lithium, and the working conditions for the miners are terrible.

Also, there is no plan to build the necessary infrastructure to accommodate all these new cars. The grid can’t even handle the current load. California suffers from an energy shortage. There is also no plan for the disposal of used batteries.

Perhaps worst of all, we don’t have one prototype of this transition working, not one city, or town, or small village.

In the end, if we all have electric cars, we’ll end up looking at them in our driveways instead of driving them.

This is the full video with Mr. Mills:


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Canadian Friend
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Canadian Friend
1 year ago

Is this a typo? Don t you mean 5000 pounds ??

…“You have to dig up about 500 pounds of materials to make a single 1000-pound battery…

No Spam
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No Spam
1 year ago

Agree EVs, and “alternative energy” in general, are NOT ready for prime time. Maybe sometime, maybe not. But there’s no question we’re not there now.

But I have a big problem with the insistence on making “CO2” some kind of boogeyman. It’s harmless. Plants depend on it for survival. CO2 is non-toxic and non-reactive. It’s just there, and it does no harm. Leave it out of the equation.

TheRoadKing101
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TheRoadKing101
1 year ago

They have no intention of us having electric vehicles.

van scheurich
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van scheurich
1 year ago

Here is even more proof:

It is not enough that China is buying Russian oil at a discount due to western sanctions put on Russia because of its invasion of Ukraine, but now President Biden’s Department of Energy (Sec. Granholm) with approval is selling to China oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR)—a source that is meant for national emergencies that Biden has been depleting since last November in hopes to lower gasoline prices that have been escalating due to his energy policies.

https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/…/biden…/ /

Peter B. Prange
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Peter B. Prange
1 year ago

I waited to to install a solar system until I was happy with the costs and the payback time for the investment. I was assured that by now the cost of the battery would be halved. Instead it has steadily risen and I can’t see how the savings would ever pay back the additional cost.
This article shows why.
We don’t need electric cars. Homes and industry need electricity and some locations are just to far from the grid like in out back Queensland and fairly isolated places in other states. The push to electric cars is using up the resources and the mandates are greatly increasing inflation. The push for electric cars is economic madness. And what of the people who now can have power only when the solar is charging by sun or the wind is blowing. MOst city people have no idea.
Ask where eggs come from and the answer is usually the store!
From the perspective of the car owner, with a terror causing government (like California), what do you do when they say “You can’t charge your car.”

Want to hear a joke? Listen to the terror causing governor of Californian call the Governor of Florida a kidnaper and terrorist.

Peter B. Prange
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Peter B. Prange
1 year ago

PS I will save enough on electricity costs in four years and three month to pay back the loan and interest borrowed (from myself) to pay for the solar, and no I did not get cheap panels from China, but the highest rated available.

stylin19
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stylin19
1 year ago

how did you do that ? average payback is about 8 years …and that includes tax credits which you don’t mention

GuvGeek
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GuvGeek
1 year ago
Reply to  stylin19

I am looking at a less than a 5 year ROI for my Solar System. Doing your homework and installing the system yourself can cut the price in half. My electric co-op is talking about at least a 50% increase in rates next year. That will drop the ROI to under 4 Years. I also have enough clear land to put over 25,000 watts of panels at ground level close to my house.

Solar can work for my home because being retired I can rearrange most of my life to using energy when the sun is shining. The problem with the EV insanity is that most people need to charge their cars at night. Then there are the Grid Capacity Issues.

Another benefit for me going solar is I live in a rural area. We lose power on a regular basis during Storms, so my Solar System will also greatly reduce my generator use. Solar doesn’t make sense for the vast majority of people. EVs make very little sense at all. In my case, a Citicar such as the Wuling Hongguang MINIEV, is the only thing that makes sense for going to the city since I can put it on charge during the day. It only cost $5000 in China. This could make sense for office workers if the parking lot at their business had charging stations. We are still looking at a 20 or 30 year timeline.

EVs are a 50 year evolution requiring a major Electrical Grid upgrade and a move to Nuclear Power.

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No Spam
1 year ago
Reply to  GuvGeek

Maybe sometime in the future, who knows, but “alternative energies” are not here now, as you point out. And since the sun doesn’t always shine, and winds don’t always blow, all of it brings some serious drawbacks that will always be there. And don’t forget the huge mining and manufacturing front-end on all these wonderful “alternative energy innovations”.

At any rate, good luck with your solar panel farm and your “Wuling Hongguang MINIEV”.

GuvGeek
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GuvGeek
1 year ago
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I won’t hold my breathe for a Wuling Hongguang MINIEV. The Traitor Joe Regime will Regulate an American version to death. Instead of 5K an American version would be 50K.