The Tesla battery pack weighs around 1,200 lbs. It contains 7,140 individual battery cells.

There are currently 1.2 billion cars on the road in the world. If we run out of oil and the combustion engine finally phased out, we are looking at 1,440,000,000,000 lbs of Lithium batteries. That's 8,568,000,000,000 battery cells.

But, Lithium is a finite resource. Can we really supply this much? Do the math.



(in metric tons)

Don't forget solar panels need batteries too to give power at night. That will also add to the figure.

Not enough. Hell no. We could recycle to recover Lithium. But, how much will this add to the cost of the vehicle? Someone is going to pay for it, right? How many solar panels are needed to recycle the batteries? How many batteries are needed for the solar panels to run at night?

We go nuclear. It's cheap. But, Fukishima and Chernobyl? Are we ready for a Nuclear powered Philippines?

Headache!

My only solution is to totally phased out cars. Everyone should take the train and ride their bicycles. It will solve finite Lithium supplies.