Toyota reduces price of new hydrogen car with $15,000 of free fuel

Re:Toyota reduces price of new hydrogen car with $15,000 of ... by hedora on Sunday January 26, 2025 @11:53AM (#42831461)

I worked this out a while back, based on the percentage of the earth’s crust that is lithium and the percentage of a car that is lithium.

I worked out that you could cover > 10% of the planet with EVs if Lithium was the only bottleneck resource.

The bigger problem is the environmental impact of extracting the lithium. My guess is that desalination plants would be a big part of my plan to cover the planet with EVs.

(We’ll probably need desalination anyway because we keep electing politicians that are intentionally causing increasingly severe droughts).

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Re:Toyota reduces price of new hydrogen car with $15,000 of ... by rUsHeYaFuBu on Sunday January 26, 2025 @11:57AM (#42831505)

They often mention the environmental implicat of lithium mining. I wonder how that compares to the environmental impact of green house gasses though.

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