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Electric cars is the way, the problem is can we really replace all cars with electric cars. One major factor is lithium, we need loads of it for the car batteries. do we have enough lithium, what about extracting it, how is this affecting the environment?
I think that the major factor slowing down the adoption of electric cars is the availability of lithium. If we are to move to all EV cars how many years we will have before lithium runs out? There are sugestions that current reserves in the world will be enough for 300+ years at current levels, but if we actually replace all cars the demand will be a lot higher so those reserves will be gone in like 20 years, we need to start extracting lithium from asteroids very soon then.
The truth is we really need major advances in batteries and ability to extract all kind of resources from asteroids
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