E-motive Automobiles

California's latest boondoggle

The Ventura County Star’s story of April 14, 2022, notes California’s plan to require 35% of all new car purchases to be electric in 4 years.  CARB (California Air Resources Board) proposes 100% of new cars be electric, hydrogen powered, or plug in hybrids (with at least 150-mile battery range) by 2035, altogether representing 11% of all car sales in the nation.  Nine states currently follow California’s rules; Five others would follow for future model years.  New York also intends to phase out all new gas vehicles by 2035.  Coincident with this is President Biden’s proposal to build 500,000 charging stations nationally at a cost of 10 million dollars per station.  All this hinges completely on being able to produce, deploy, and dispose of batteries (our new nuclear waste) requiring huge amounts of minerals in critically short supply or availability both now and in the future.  The limits on lithium, cobalt, chromium, and nickel noted in the report of the CRES Forum expert panel are w…