I doubt you could use all 22 million just on light duty passenger BEVs. That’s what I doubt.

Lol, nice trolling.

From your own popular mechanics article:

The price already is up. You’re making a strong conclusion from a tenuous correlation. Lithium is not oil, this is like saying that we’d find a ton more diamonds because diamond prices are high due to the way oil works.

I think the S2000 is just about the perfect sports car. What’s truly amazing is putting the car in context, the new-for-’99 Porsche Boxster S had 252 hp, and a 911 Carerra had 296 hp. Here’s this tiny Honda with 240 hp and 9000 RPM, that’d be like Honda launching a convertible with a 400 hp 11,000 RPM engine today. It…

Yea, as a Chicago native it was hard for me to believe DTW is nice, but it is really nice. Surprised it’s not on this list, makes places such as LAX and DFW seem like poorly laid out relics.

Even worse, it’s like the government telling us we HAVE to smoke and that investigating other options of nicotine intake is wrong and evil.

You’re not understanding my argument at all. Quoting you:

I feel like the GTI was created precisely for this sort of buyer.

As someone who designs engines for a living, and is very familiar with the history on ICE in passenger vehicles, the gain was tech. All tech. Heywood directed the regs (1975 book was the research he had conducted for the regulatory bodies), it took a few years for the automakers to catch up because the design cycle…

Trucks. Trucks don’t need 400+ hp for 99% of applications.

That graph is terribly misleading. The real gain in fuel economy during the “malaise” era was actual research into combustion. They started using science to design engines, particularly on the combustion side. This coincided with the first fuel systems that could adjust the fueling in real time.

I’m still not convinced on the long-term stability of LFP. The degradation, thermal, and cycling durability tests aren’t there IMO. I’m not saying it can’t work, but the main reason for high Cobalt content in BEV batteries is long term stability.

I’ve seen it, but more importantly real engineers in the auto industry have been waving their hands for awhile about this. You look at what the Germans are doing with eFuels, they’re not stupid and they’re doing it for legitimate reasons. The EU laws are silly and are going to back them into EXTREMELY expensive…

On the contrary, I appreciate a CEO that’s being honest. GM in particular are trying to ride the Tesla stock price wave by going “all-in” on batteries. They’ll walk it back as time goes on, it’s all hype.

Like....gold? There’s plenty of demand for gold but the corporate greed keeps supply limited to keep prices up. You’re assuming lithium and cobalt wouldn’t end up in the same situation.

Sources? As an engineer in the industry this contradicts everything I’ve seen.

‘00 Cobra R is so, so good to drive. I was lucky enough to drive one before they became too valuable to use.

I’d say weight. Having driven some really heavy performance cars, there’s definitely something missing. It’s the biggest problem with BEVs IMO.

I know why FWD performance cars exist, I even own one, but it’s a big and fundamental compromise. It’s there for cost reasons, not performance reasons.