EVs may be the future, but current lithium-ion battery technology is not the answer
EV’S BIG PICTURE
HAVING READ read Andy Enright’s big drive of the Mercedes EQS, ‘Change we can believe in?’ (Wheels, October), I suggest he’s presented only one side of the very complex EV equation.
Here’s the ‘darker’ side.
Whilst EVs may be the future, current lithium-ion battery technology is not the answer.
Such batteries require the mining, processing, transport, refining and manufacture of large quantities of lithium salts, cobalt, nickel, graphite and copper; often from
