Joe Biden has big ambitions for his electric vehicle agenda.
But his plan couldn’t survive its first contact with reality.
And Joe Biden blew a gasket after he got the worst possible news about electric vehicles.
Not enough?
President Joe Biden and his environmental extremist allies worldwide are trying to force the global working class to switch to electric vehicles (EVs).
“The future of the auto industry is electric,” Biden declared at a Ford plant in 2021. “There’s no turning back.”
Now, left-wing environmental extremists’ Bidenmobile revolution is facing a fatal problem.
Putting tens of millions of new electric vehicles on the roads requires an enormous amount of rare earth metals, like nickel, cobalt, lithium, and copper, as each is critical to the manufacturing of EVs, their batteries and other components, charging stations, and the electric grid.
According to a new study from the University of Michigan, the world’s copper mines are currently incapable of producing enough for the mass transition to Bidenmobiles.
Michigan Earth and Environmental Studies Professor Adam Simon explained the grim reality of the world’s copper supply.
“A normal Honda Accord needs about 40 pounds of copper,” Simon explained. “The same battery electric Honda Accord needs almost 200 pounds of copper.”
“We show in the paper that the amount of copper needed is essentially impossible for mining companies to produce,” he stated.
The study looked at 120 years of data about the copper mining industry and projected how much would be needed for the rest of this century to expand the electric grid and complete environmental extremists’ efforts to force a mass transition to electric vehicles.
Demand from the Bidenmobile transition far outstrips what the world can produce.
“Between 2018 and 2050, the world will need to mine 115% more copper than has been mined in all of human history up until 2018 just to meet current copper needs without considering the green energy transition,” The Institution of Engineering and Technology stated.
To have any hope of keeping up with this demand, six additional major copper mines would have to come online every year for decades.
But of course, mining in the United States is going extinct because of stringent environmental extremist regulations pushed by Democrats.
Switching to hybrid vehicles is the only feasible alternative for Democrats
The researchers suggested that instead of switching to EVs, hybrids would be a better solution.
“We know, for example, that a Toyota Prius actually has a slightly better impact on climate than a Tesla. Instead of producing 20 million EVs in the US and, globally, 100 million battery EVs each year, would it be more feasible to focus on building 20 million hybrid vehicles?” Simon asked.
The battle over the limited supply of copper would pit developing nations looking to build their electric grids versus wealthy ones who want to go all-in on green energy.
“What we will end up with is tension between how much copper we need to build infrastructure in less developed countries versus how much copper we need for the energy transition,” Simon warned.
“We are hoping this study gets picked up by policymakers who should consider copper as the limiting factor for the energy transition, and to think about how copper is allocated,” he added.
Joe Biden and Democrats’ efforts to force Americans into Bidenmobiles are going to crash and burn because of the world’s limited supply of copper.
