Road and Track – EV battery shortage

[Ray Holan]

Interesting article from Road & Track. At one point, the author highlights the notion of producing EV’s with smaller battery packs with shorter ranges (i.e. 250 miles vs. 400+) as a way to address the financial and environmental costs of large EV battery packs.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a40447610/why-car-companies-cant-simply-fix-their-ev-battery-supply-problems/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_rdt&utm_medium=email&date=070222&utm_campaign=nl28255285&utm_term=AAA%20–%20High%20Minus%20Dormant%20and%2090%20Day%20Non%20Openers

Of course, Aptera is way ahead by designing a more efficient EV that enables longer range with a pack much smaller than EV’s from traditional manufacturers.

• This discussion was modified 3 weeks, 1 day ago by  bbelcamino.

[John Trotter]

BEVs need to get environmental credit for NOT needing the platinum/palladium/rhodium of ICE car catalytic converters. Half to three-quarters of these metals go into catalytic converters.