Canadian Politics Today

Its true that gas has a much higher Energy Density than storying power in batteries.

However, there are things that offset that:
- Batteries store less energy than a comparable amount of gas, but those batteries can be re-charged. Once that gas is gone, its gone

- Most of the energy in that gas is actually wasted... mostly waste heat from combustion (although things like friction might play a role). If I remember correctly, only ~15% of the energy in gas actually gets used to move the car forward. In the case of electric cars, the efficiency is closer to 75%.

Even with ICE's only having 30% thermal efficiency, they can still carry far more useful energy than electric vehicles. This will limit EV's to light duty vehicles or very short range heavy duty vehicles.

Resources to produce batteries are are also a huge problem. For the UK to meet its EV objectives it will need twice the worlds annual cobalt production all by itself.

Yes, but 'light duty vehicles' (cars, pickup trucks, etc.) probably compose of the majority of vehicles on the road.


See: https://cleantechnica.com/2021/01/07/cobalt-banished-from-new-lithium-ion-electric-vehicle-batteries/

More eco-Friendly heavy-duty/long range vehicles (transport trucks, etc.) will take longer. But, technology progresses...Yes, availability of certain materials used in battery production (like Cobalt, Lithium, etc.) might be a problem. (Not to mention that much of the world's cobalt comes from Africa, where stability and human rights are often issues.)

But, technology changes. The first EVs used components that were 33% cobalt. That has since dropped to 15-20%, and IBM is working on a cobalt-free battery. So while cobalt may be an issue with today's crop of EVs, it may not be a problem in the future.

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