Tag: petrol
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What Barriers Still Impede Electric Vehicles?
Electric vehicles have been with us for a long time. It’s only recently that they’re being touted as a serious replacement for the internal combustion engine and a (partial) answer to our climate crisis. The UK government says that it’ll ban the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030 – and you can reasonably…
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30 critical raw materials: EU prioritizes lithium but launches plan to avoid dependency
The European Commission, the administrative arm of the European Union, has listed 30 “critical raw materials” that it wants to secure the supply of while at the same time avoiding becoming dependent on any of them. The four new additions to the list are bauxite, lithium, titanium and strontium. Lithium, a fundamental material in the…
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Oil-producing nations struggling with economic woes as society shifts towards electric movement
Oil-producing nations located in the Middle East and North Africa are struggling with their economies, most of which are not diversified enough to offset the losses caused by falls in the price of crude. A quick check shows that the current price of a barrel of crude oil – which is about 160 litres –…
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Growing power: A quick look at the market for electric cars
Will electric cars become more common than petrol cars? New developments suggest that they just might. There are 1 billion cars in the world today. And only 1 million of them are fully electric vehicles. But electric cars are growing in number, as auto giants take more interest. As Pamela Fletcher of GM says: “The electric…