Lithium electric vehicle supply chain deviates from zero emissions

In the past two decades, the most stringent challenge to the automotive industry has been environmental protection laws and regulations. Carbon emissions must be gradually reduced, otherwise the market cannot be listed. In other words, automakers that can put forward a blueprint for carbon reduction plans can ensure long-term competitiveness. Carbon reduction has not only become a technical indicator of the auto industry, it is also the most basic social responsibility and a guarantee for the image of the car factory. Therefore, the major automakers have to try to improve the efficiency of the system from all levels in order to meet the standards.

Although huge R&D resources have been invested in improvement and have indeed achieved significant carbon reduction benefits, fuel vehicles have their limits. After all, they will be stretched for the foreseeable future and will not be able to meet regulatory standards. However, fuel vehicles have a history of 100 years of development, the technology is very mature, and the industrial chain is also very complete. For most time-honored auto factories, it is impossible to eliminate them in a short time. They must be phased step by step to achieve economic benefits. Therefore, Toyota Motor announced the world's first hybrid electric vehicle Prius at the end of 1997, which is based on a realistic level, taking into account environmental protection trends and maintaining economic considerations.

However, this situation happens to give the completely unburdened new car factory a good opportunity to cut into the market with the relative difference of the 100% green energy lithium battery. Tesla, which was founded in 2003, is the most talked about. It has set a benchmark for the greening of automobiles and has even become the target of traditional car manufacturers. General public opinion believes that lithium batteries are the mainstream, and even the only solution, to enter the green environment. However, with the gradual popularization of lithium electric vehicles represented by Tesla, the challenges are just at the beginning, and problems also emerge, which run counter to the earlier demands of safety, environmental protection and zero-emission green energy. On the other hand, Toyota, the world's largest car manufacturer, and Hyundai Motor of South Korea have directly focused their R&D energy on hydrogen vehicles. This means that car manufacturers have divergent views on the direction of zero emissions. So what is the truth?

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