Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "Pickup Truck Plus SUV Talk" channel.

@stevenbass732 Absolutely false, Li is abundant, plenty in Nevada alone to supply US needs indefinitely, it's all about the time it takes to permit (in the USA) and ramp mining and refining.
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No. They will continue lower as they have for decades tho at reduced rate of change. Original Tesla roadster batts cost around $120k ea to make, much better batts today cost them about $10k and projected to head toward $5k. Beyond that newer gen LFP batts will last twice as long and even cheaper to make. For every doubling in batt production cost drops by a constant rate, around 30%.
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@Jobratedman True that permitting a big problem in the USA, a decade where it takes 2.5 yrs in Canada, less in many other places. Complete nonsense about overall costs involved which is easily demonstrated just on the surface--the price of the final product: GOOD BEVs out of China in approximate cost parity with ICE counterparts. If not mined in the US it will be elsewhere, we're not talking platinum and palladium required for ICE cars here, but far more common elements. Every input from diesel used in mining to refining, transportation...*everything is in the batteries themselves* (obviously) the best of those are in the $10k range and heading to $5k in coming yrs. Highly competitive, game over for the old guard. (legacy auto mfgs need not apply here, they are all dying, GM, VW, to Toyota, and very inefficient) Ni, manganese, cobalt are NOT REQUIRED for cars or stationary storage any longer. Ni will continue to be needed or desired for more demanding higher energy density applications, manganese in small quantities.
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@Jobratedman I've been watching it for a decade and a half, obviously far more informed than you. A minority have noticed that operating a GOOD BEV is around 1/4 as much as an ICE. That's with global fossil fuel subsidies of some $6 trillion annually and no offsetting BEV subsidies. For very high use applications, Uber driver say, that means their Tesla Model 3 payment is easily made by fuel savings alone. Such simple economics is what it is. To claim "environmental disaster" is hilariously blinded by propaganda, just as dumb as climate alarmism.
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@raytycker1656 WHAT is mined in China? Mostly coal not a lot else. Li comes from N. and S. America, Australia and other places. Ni from Indonesia, Canada, USA, Africa, Iron from many places. China has a near monopoly on Rare Earth refining not mining, there are no such elements in batteries.
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@raytycker1656 Get rid of your phone and any electronics you own, Rare Earths are by far the worst and touch screens, screens in general are the problem. Li is one of the cleanest things to mine, done properly, and iron is used VASTLY more for steel than batteries. You really don't have a clue, do you.
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@douglasmoore8033 Dad made great career in mining industry told me that back in the 1980's. "California ran out mining." Tho he worked at the exception in the high Sierras, underground tungsten mine.
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@Jobratedman You are a victim of propaganda, we all are to one degree or another. The established forces against BEVs is massive, commutators get bought, often just thru averts. But it won't matter, economics will rule the day.
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@johntalik5937 HAhaha! Good one. You'll be driving a BEV soon as they'll be the poor man's pick soon. See what I'm getting at there? 😄
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Why would you give any credence to a children's actor? He obviously got paid to pretend the Badger existed in some sense.
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98% of folks only buy a "truck" for a fashion statement, they have no intention of putting more than 4 bags of groceries in the back and that's what they are designed for. Hahaha
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THAT didn't age well, hmmm? Hahaha
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Old OEM's are rapidly becoming irrelevant, they are dying, they better comply with the market demands they no longer have any control over with whatever is left of them.
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