Pale Rider
Legendary Member
The change won't happen. Theres only 40% of the neodymium required to replace every ICE car with a battery one, not to mention the lithium carbonate or hydroxide. It physically cannot ever happen as the dreamers wish.
This bold assertion has been made several times, but it's a dangerous one.
There's stuff on the BBC website about mining the materials from the deep seabed.
Those in favour say there's little else down there, so environmental impact is small, those against say different.
Either way, seabed mining may go the same way as most new battery technology - looks good at first blush but doesn't work in practice.
But it might not, so no one can correctly claim conversion to electric vehicles 'physically cannot ever happen as the dreamers wish'.