quote:
It goes beyond that, look at the countries that mine for the minerals used to make the batteries. Brazil, Chile, China, Zimbabwe, Argentina, etc... don't give a frick about pollutants. The effects of those companies ramping up mining explorations to make the minerals abundant enough for moves like this completely offset the move from fossil fuel. Doesn't an EV already take 5 years or more to break even compared to it's fossil fuel brethren because of the much higher amount of green house gases needed just during production of the electrical systems? Ramp up the quantity and I'm sure the countries listed above will make sure that quality is maintained and we don't see an even higher rate of greenhouse gases produced during mining

I believe we will soon see a shift in the market regarding batteries

We will see a move away from the traditional Li ion battery to other technologies

examples:

Graphene Batteries: are the future. One company has developed a new battery, called Grabat, that could offer electric cars a driving range of up to 500 miles on a charge

Li air breathing batteries: using oxygen as the oxidiser, rather than a material. The result is batteries that can be a fifth of the price and a fifth as light as lithium-ion, plus they could make phones and cars last five times longer.

Nanowire batteries: Nanowires, a thousand times thinner than a human hair, pose a great possibility for future batteries. But they've always broken down when recharging. This discovery uses gold nanowires in a gel electrolyte to avoid that. In fact these batteries were tested recharging over 200,000 times in three months and showed no degradation at all.

This could be ideal for future electric cars, spacecraft and phones that will never need new batteries.

Here's a great article regarding future battery development

This post was edited on 7/5/17 at 9:19 am