In the last ten days I have heard two different stories of batteries causing fires in electric cars that led to the total destruction of the cars
Apparently the love affair of many Argentine town counicils to put unmarked speed bumps all over the place is causing costly damage to the batteries of electric cars which in the huge majority of cases are located in the base of the car.
Today an argentine car enthisiast sent me this peice which I have translated with the help of IA.
What do you all think?
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God exists… the scarcity of rare minerals is shutting down electric car plants
For years we’ve been told that the future was electric, autonomous, green. That combustion engines were the enemy and that anyone who didn’t adapt would be left behind. Billions in subsidies, gigafactories, battery startups, and an army of influencers promoting the “sustainable revolution.”
And yet, right at this very moment, several electric car plants are shutting down due to a lack of rare components like, lithium, copper, and other strategic minerals.
The future is now postponed by reality.
The electric car isn’t so clean when you have to dig into the ground
To manufacture a single electric vehicle, minerals like neodymium, dysprosium, lithium, cobalt, nickel, and manganese are needed. All of them concentrated in just a few geopolitically sensitive regions: China, the Congo, and the lithium triangle in South America.
With demand skyrocketing and supply constrained by conflicts, protectionism, and environmental disasters, global production is starting to wobble. Some call it a bottleneck, but in reality, it’s a structural knot.
The paradox of “green progress” - Companies like Ford, GM, Rivian, and even BYD have had to pause or reduce production. Not for lack of demand, but for lack of raw materials. The paradox is brutal: we’ve embarked on an energy transition that depends on resources as scarce as the ones we intended to leave behind.
Gigafactories don’t work without graphite. Batteries can’t be assembled without refined lithium. And electric motors don’t spin without rare earth magnets.
What if God were a systems engineer?
Maybe this scarcity is the reminder we needed:
👉 Innovation without resource sovereignty is just disguised dependency.
👉 Transition without planning is just Silicon Valley marketing.
👉 And replacing oil with minerals doesn’t guarantee climate justice.
Perhaps there’s something “divine” in this technological collapse. A slap of reality to stop speculative madness, restore industrial humility, and rethink our path.
Because the future isn’t just electric.
It has to be smart, accessible, and truly sustainable.
