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A post I made on ceo.ca

Looking at copper
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@sortagreen Good times though...

Required Investment in Charging
Infrastructure

5 million – the number of charging ports required to support 7
million PEVs in 2025. This will require a significant investment in PEV
charging infrastructure.

There are three types of charge ports, which are typically installed at
homes, workplaces or public locations:
?? Level 1: 120 Volts; Charging Time: Overnight
?? Level 2: 220 volts; Charging Time: Several Hours
?? DC Fast Chargers: DCFC; Charging Time: Under an Hour
There currently are between 50,000 and 70,000 Level 2 ports in
work or public locations in the U.S.; and that number needs to be
increased to between 2,230,000 and 2,240,000 by 2025.

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Copper is Essential to Electric
Vehicle Technology
Copper is used throughout electric vehicles, charging stations and
supporting infrastructure because of the metal’s durability, high
conductivity and efficiency.

While conventional cars have 18-49 pounds of copper, hybrid
electric vehicles (HEV) contain approximately 85 pounds, plug-in
hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) use 132 pounds, battery electric
vehicles (BEVs) contain 183 pounds, a hybrid electric bus contains
196 pounds, and a battery electric bus contains 814 pounds, most
of which is used in the battery.
In 2016, the total estimated amount of copper used in all electric
vehicles manufactured by BYD, the world’s largest electric vehicle
maker, was nearly 26 million pounds.
Copper is also required for charge ports. BYD’s total sale of chargers
in 2016 used more than 295,419 pounds of copper.

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Copper Demand in a Sustainable World

The increase in the electric vehicles market will significantly impact
copper. The demand for copper due to electric vehicles is expected to
increase by 1,700 kilotons by 2027.

https://cdn-ceo-ca.s3.amazonaws.com/1gcji84-A6191-ElectricVehicles-Factsheet.pdf