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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/minerals-mining-metals-ottawa-nickel-electric-vehicles-1.6415887
Eugene van den Berg, May, 2022
Access to and the ability to mine Critical Minerals on a sustainable basis will be the next quest in energy transition. The requirements to meet the ideology to rapidly shift to EV are staggering. That does not mean I am anti-Renewable Energy and Electric Vehicles (EV). It comes down to scarce resources and access to them measuring against steep transition expectation curves.
Here are other important things to consider concerning the required charging infrastructure and the headaches that represent.
The World Bank’s Impractical Electric Car Clap-Trap
Eugene is an accomplished Analyst, Accountant, Controller, CFO, and Corporate Finance expert with many years of diverse finance and accounting experience across different industries and with different companies, including non-for-profits. He is a knowledge- and information worker with a passion to solve complex financial management problems and financial reporting processes. Eugene is passionate about finance and economics. He enjoys blogging about interesting economic aspects of current times. He also enjoys following how politics interjects with finance, economy and statistics. Future academic ambition includes enrolling for a PhD in Economics (for the fun of it!).