• Saneless@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “critical materials”

    Could mean lithium or cobalt or something that’s harder to come by than steel or aluminum

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      1 year ago

      That’s the problem when people just invent words. Nobody knows what they mean.

      Lithium is not hard to come by.

      Cobalt is used sparingly in batteries or not at all. You know where it’s used a lot? Gasoline desulfurization. So your hybrid uses up a ton of Cobalt.