Introduction
Symbols and Units Glossary
1 - Mankind Learns to Store Energy (Leyden Jars - Voltaic Piles - Daniell Cells - Plante and Junger - Thomas Edison - The Modern Lead Acid Battery)
2 - Electric Vehicles Lose the First Mobility Race (The Gasoline-Powered Internal Combustion Engine - Steam Power Created By Burning Kerosene - Electric Power - Rock Oil - Texas Booms - Henry Ford Takes Note - No More Cranking)
3 - Electric Vehicles Try Again (OPEC Flexes Its Muscles - The Automakers Respond)
4 - Hydrogen: The Ovshinsky Answer to Energy Storage (The NiMH Battery - The China Rare Earth Metal Problem)
5 - The Brains Behind Better Batteries (Whittington and Titanium Disulfide - Goodenough and Lithium-Manganese Oxide - Goodenough, Padhi and Lithium Iron Phosphate - Yoshino and Lithium-Cobalt Oxide - The Nobel Prize)
6 - The Club of Rome (The Peccei Story - The Club of Rome - Jurgen Randers)
7 - The Carrying Capacity Issue (Malthus - IPAT Model - Kaya Identity)
8 - The World Economic Forum
9 - Randers Issues Another Warning
10 - The IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme - IPCC)
11 - ZEV Takes Charge (California and ZEV - China - European Union (E.U.) - Canada - A Bumpy Road Ahead?)
12 - The Elon Musk Factor
13 - The Carbon Cycle (Intake and Release - Unbalanced)
14 - Climate Change is Cyclical (Milankovitch - Interglacial Periods)
15 - The Basic Design of a Lithium-ion Battery
16 - Battery Materials and Design Iterations (Nasty Chemicals - Battery Cells - Pouch Design - Battery Cells - Cylindrical Design - The 18650 Cylindrical Design - 2170 Cylindrical Design - Prismatic Design - 4680 Cylindrical Design - Cathode Materials - NCA and NCM Cathode Designs - Material Used in the 4680 Design - Material Used in the 18650 Design - LFP Batteries)
17 - New Designs. Better Batteries? (The Sodium Battery - The Solid State Battery)
18 Battery Metals - Where From? (Layers - Plates)
19 Battery Metals - Will We Have Enough? (Cobalt - Peak Cobalt? - Nickel - Sulfide Ores - Laterite Ores - Peak Nickel? - Manganese - Peak Manganese? - Copper - Peak Copper? - Lithium - Hard Rock Lithium - Hard Rock Processing - Clay Lithium Deposits - Clay Deposit Processing - Salar Lithium - Salar Lithium Processing - Lithium From Abandoned Oil Wells - Peak Lithium? - Silver - Rare Earth Metals)
20 - There Is No Free Lunch (First Law of Thermodynamics - Second Law of Thermodynamics)
21 - Electricity from the Wind?
22 - Electric versus Internal Combustion (A Numerical Example to Make Sense of it All)
23 - Vehicles Powered by Hydrogen Fuel Cells? (Steam Reforming - Partial Oxidation - Electrolysis of Water)
24 - Natural Gas to Power Vehicles?
25 - Electricity from Nuclear Power?
26 - Electricity from the Sun?
27 - Food for Fuel?
28 - Recycling of Battery Metals
29 - What is Not Being Talked About (The Automakers are Losing Money - Apple Scraps Project Titan - The Walls Are Going Up - Collision Safety - Vehicle Weight - The Economics of Battery Charging - Driving Range - Tesla Driving Range Controversy - Insurance and Registration - General Motors Kicks the EV Down the Road - What is Being Said in Washington - TESLA Misses)
Conclusion
Notes
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