Naaaa, this time is different. It’s possible to tell them to go phuck themselves.
These are the results of an EU research project called the FRAME project. This is the visualization of how likely is to find lithium due to the exposed rocks (close to the surface) because of orogeny (formation of mountains due to plate tectonics). Based on this forecast, geologists go to the field and verify if the forecast becomes a reservoir/mine in the real world.
From West to East those mountains that make Spain a desert may contain lithium. Bretagne? Lithium. Massif Centrale Français? Lithium. La Corse? Lithium. Swiss Alps? Lithium. Austrian Alps? It’s Gold!!!..er Lithium!!!. The Lusatian Mountains in Bohemia and Saxony? Lithium. Dinaric Alps, Balkan Mountains? Lithium too, but why focus only on them?
So, Mrs. Franziska Brantner call teach everyone by setting a good example in Saxony. Mine lithium in Germany in a clean way and show how it is properly done. Then, we can talk.
EU FRAME project website, I wish more people knew about this. It was done with the taxes of everyone of us. Let information be free, we shall be free
Thanks Axa! Precisely. I have seen sarcastic comments on ‘not in my own backyard’ attitude, when in fact it is Germany that would not allow anything in its own backyard, and couldn’t care less for, in this concrete example, 1/3 of Serbian population that will be displaced as a result (let alone destroyed top quality agriculture land), just that German automakers can have sufficient stocks of lithium.
Back to reality where money matters, this is a mining company developing Lithium mines in Saxony https://zinnwaldlithium.com/
So, if anyone is really interested in lithium being extracted in Europe, they can put their money where their mouth is and invest in this company, support them!
It’s almost like the map done by the nerds with EU funding is onto something:
The project is situated on one of Europe’s largest lithium resources: an ore body that straddles the German-Czech border under the villages of Zinnwald and Cinovec. The area gave its name to Zinnwaldite, a type of lithium-bearing ore first discovered in 1845.
I did not get to choose.
As a matter of interest I pay the 1% rule and basically “own” the company car, actually I should have given it back two years ago and got a new one, but that is another story. last year some middle management drone wanting to justify his job hit on the idea that the people changing to a new company car should have an electric one. After the laughter of the Außendienst died down it was never mentioned again.
Well, for an EV you’d only pay 0.25%. And Tesla has rather low list-prices (which is what the taxes are based on, not the 40% rebated prices your employer gets via his fleet account).
It will soon become rather expensive to drive an ICE car.
Problem wich e-Cars is that just to do day to day things I do, I would have to have it on charge charge two to three times and that eats into the rather sporty SLA’s the company has.
Apart from that a Tesla hasn’t got the boot space to lug all the kit and kaboodle around.
Admittedly, I have a shared wallbox with my neighbor. But I usually charge at night.
It takes about 6h from 5% to 100% on the LFP battery. It’s said to be good for 3000 cycles. So at 300km-ish per full charge, that would be like 900k km…
Presumably, they could legislate that new cars be fitted with meters, otherwise, it would be incredibly expensive to install camera monitors everywhere. Maybe at the start just install cameras for autobahns and major towns.
Another option would be small adon GPS devices with wireless reporting for all cars.
You underestimate the amount of stuff I sometimes have to carry on top of the usual tools, cables, spares usw, usf.
Also I pay the one percent, that means for my 2017 Astra I get 270 Euros deducted from netto. A tesla would take about a third of my wage and not only that the fleet management has around 2500 cars running in Germany and to stock with Tesla would give them heart attack.
Oh, I understand that. But at some point, the costs will become very high. Too high:
People have voted for this. One way or the other.
De-carbonization of company fleets has already started. Mind you, it started at the top, but it will not stop until it’s at the bottom.
People who believed in Tesla’s mission have always insisted that this transition is really a disruption. It will start slow, but after a tipping point, it will be very fast. Maybe not as fast a the transition from “dumb” phones to “smart” phones (due to the nature of the investment/expenditure) - but at the end of the day, companies think in running costs.
I have no doubt they’ll squeeze us EV owners hard at some point - but they’ll squeeze the ICE owners first and harder.
I just can´t see it working for people like me who drive thousands of km´s a week.
For instance, although I see more and more petrol stations with Ladesäulen it´s like 20 fuel pumps to three electric points (at the moment) on one that I pass almost every day, it is a station just before the Middle ring lets you onto the A96, there is on most days at rush hour a queue of EV´s four deep waiting to top up.
That will change at some point I am sure, but were are you going to get the energy from now that the last nuke plants are off line, no more coal fired plants being built and the North-south power link thought to supply power from the north sea wind farms to the industry in the south hasnt even started to be laid down.
Also, it did not take a lot to get Northstream to go boom, how easy would it be for Russia to disable the link if they thought it would be a good idea?
I would agree that if you don’t own a Tesla, charging is a bit more of a pain. There are dozens of different companies, schemes, tariffs and many of the chargers you arrive at are either vandalised or off-line. At least that was my experience, driving around the UK in a Polestar. That’s why I’ve reverted back to renting ICE cars when I’m abroad because I don’t want the hassle.
Teslas are not great cars, but the charging infrastructure and tech is what sets it apart.
Why? I have a diesel, it’s only when the thing is in the garage for maintenance do I get a E-car.
Blitzi is now over 310.000 km’s and counting.
Another 70.000 and Blitzi will have travelled to the moon.
By the way, are there any e-cars over 300.000 yet?
Also By the way, I don’t take breaks, the SLA’s are too sporty for that.
