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Electric vehicles won't save us from climate change?

• arclein

The U.S. has about 276 million registered motor vehicles, or roughly nine times as many vehicles as the U.K. Thus, if Herrington's numbers are right, electrifying all of U.S. motor vehicles would require roughly 18 times the world's current cobalt production, about nine times global neodymium output, nearly seven times global lithium production, and about four times world copper production.