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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (929527)4/7/2016 10:07:13 PM
From: Tenchusatsu   of 1577634
 
Eric,
Have not seen definitive numbers - but they are big and made from a lot of expensive hard to mine materials that used a lot of diesel in their making.
One thing is for certain. If most of the cost of producing the battery comes from the energy burned in producing its component materials, then a spike in energy costs (e.g. oil going to $150-200/barrel or something crazy like that) will mean that the cost of a Tesla battery just went through the roof.

Which then will offset the cost savings of driving electric.

We can crunch theoretical numbers all we want, and point out any mathematical errors or flaws in logic, but one thing is for certain. The invisible hand of the free market will always work things out in the end.

Not big government. Not the environmentalist wackos. And certainly not Hillary, Bernie, or Trump.

Tenchusatsu
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