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6/19/2018 Electric Vehicles on the Road Are Set to Triple in Two Years-Bloomberg followed by Europe, India and the U.S. That means the world needs many more battery production plants like the Gigafactory <https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/gigafactory> that billionaire Elon Musk's Tesla is building in Nevada. That facility draws its name from the the word giga, meaning billion. It will produce 35 gigawatt-hours of batteries over 4.9 million square feet of operating area. Battery Appetite Demand for batteries is expected to rise by a factor of 15 to 2030 900 gigawatt-hours 800 — 700 — — 600 - — 500 — 400 — — — — — — 300 — — — — — — 200 ■-1-111-1-11— — — — — — — — 100 0 2017 2021 2025 2029 Source:IEA 5. Buses are going electric too There will be 1.5 million electric buses <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04- 23/electric-buses-are-hurting-the-oil-industry> in use worldwide by 2030, up from 370,000 last year, according to the IEA. Almost 100,000 electrified city buses were sold last year, 99 percent of them in China. The Chinese city of Shenzhen is leading the pack with an all-electric bus fleet. A number of cities in the Europe's Nordic region such as Oslo, Trondheim and Gothenburg also have electric buses in operation. 6. Cobalt and lithium demand is surging Cobalt and lithium are key ingredients in the rechargeable batteries that power electric vehicles as well as electronics from mobile phones to laptops. Demand could possibly rise tenfold, but technological advances and adjustments to battery chemistry could also significantly reduce this. Since about 60 percent of the world's cobalt is mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo where child labor still exists, battery makers are under pressure to show that their products are made sustainably. This may provide an incentive to shift away from cobalt-heavy batteries. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-30/electric-vehicles-on-the-road-are-set-to-triple-in-two-years 4/5