cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/42762746
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Curious what mining vs recycling will do to the personal vehicle economy. If new vehicles depend primarily recycled materials (in that there’s a substantial cost cliff between mined and recycled), we may hit some global max quantity of vehicles in that new cars require old cars to be recycled. So it’s not that we can’t make additional vehicles, they’ll just be much more expensive.
Curious if that’ll lower per capita car ownership. People give up multiple cars per family for the benefit of cheaper “fuel” compared to ICE vehicles which have no global material shortage suppressing their manufacture.
