Real dumpster, lithium mining supply maxed out, water pollution where lithium being mined, not that any company making money cares about some foreign people being hurt by mine pollution, the real death nail in legacy automakers, competition from China.
REE's for IPM & Axial Flux EV Motors
BYD and others, noting China also the worlds largest maker of lithium ion batteries and rare earth minerals, noteworthy because REE's are used in EV motors, as magnetic, you know those NdFeB super strong M52 high flux magnets that give IPM motors their torque and horsepower or KW of performance, when even in 5X lower mass AXIAL flux IPM, those same kind of magnets are needed, even if less of them, scaling EV production to make billions of vehicles for billions of people, we have a natural resource problem way beyond the scope of China stealing sales from Legacy Automakers.
Mining Insufficient Supply
There does not exist enough aluminum production, enough copper production, enough steel protection, enough titanium or magnesium production and certainly not enough REE production outside of China, or Chip production, since AI eating up DRAM and GPU and CPU and related SOC, faster than every, driving up electrical and water costs for residential customers near data centers causing New York to ban data center builds, citing noise, light, humming, water consumption and huge power demands that have raised electricity prices in some locals near big data centers by as much as 267% in less than a year.
Toyota Hybrid Synergy Drive
For 25 years they have been the big daddy of selling millions of strong hybrid passenger light duty vehicles to regular people, including ride hailing business like lift or uber, because a Prius offers the lowest total cost of ownership, so a cab driving a Prius makes that cab driver more money per trip, by slashing his or her fueling costs, so much fuel cost savings that it pays for the entire Prius capital cost eventually, even taking into account replacing the hybrid battery. How, well that depends on fuel prices locally where the hybrid operated. In many locals in Europe unleaded gasoline retails at fuel pumps for over $8USD per US gallon, about double or slightly more per unit of gasoline that Americans pay at retail gas pumps for the same fuel.
In Iran or some other shitty third world country, with as Fashion state, gasoline sells for cents per dollar, way less than $1 per US gallon, often $0.22 or less per liter, some $0.11 cents per liter for petrol. If fuel costs more than the hybrid's better fuel economy produces a fast pay back period, or ROI in terms of fueling cost reduction savings, that means if you buy a hybrid and operate it for 20 years, you will save more money in reduced fueling costs than you paid for the vehicle, if the fuel prices are high enough to create these savings.
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