RE: Zinnwald - Newspapers1 May 2019 11:27
"The electric revolution on the roads of the world is starting. In the headquarters of many car companies, the slow farewell to the combustion engine has long since been decided. Depending on the underlying scenario, the International Energy Agency expects to market 125 million to 220 million passenger cars and light commercial vehicles worldwide in 2030, either with a pure battery drive or plug-in hybrid technology.
By comparison, at the beginning of 2019, only 5.6 million electrified vehicles were on the road worldwide. The number is rising rapidly in the future, and thus raises an urgent question: All these vehicles will have a lithium battery. But are the global lithium reserves sufficient for the predicted boom in electric cars?
"The dynamic development of electromobility can lead to temporary bottlenecks for individual raw materials," warns Matthias Buchert from the Öko-Institut Darmstadt. Also the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research"
Google translate works fine but I can only access the beginning of the article.