How long until we see €2 a litre and will it push more to EV's faster?

Me going 10mins away 12km return journey for 186.9 diesel vs 199 diesel is worth it to me. That's 15euro difference in the tank.

The 199.9 garages jumped up to 210.9 and 204.9 this morning and the other one only went up a cent to 196.9.

Funnily these two garages would have been two of the cheaper garages around before the prices soared now they’re the most expensive.

Cheapest “brand” I can find seem to be the cetra stations that Are part of Tesco I think.

Handy that you can use the club card vouchers to buy fuel and every time you fill up this puts points on your club card app.

Whoops €8.25 savage. my bad! 😅

That's good, prices in Swords are beginning to creep up again, petrol gone for 182 to 186 a litre.

Is petrol refining always so much cheaper than diesel?

Diesel now more expensive here in the Netherlands. Usually it's a 30c difference but increasing diesel refining margins have eaten away that difference.

Germany have reversed their reduction in fuel duties, so petrol prices shot up overnight by about 35c per litre on 1st Sept. Petrol price now on par with NL.

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EV's dream just got more expensive. Again.

Lithium price hit new record and lithium market is expected to fold in 2025 simply because there is not enough of it. Pray for new miracle technology and that they finally crack lithium recycling which is still pretty much non-existent.

Incorrect. Majority of car batteries are made of 18650 cells which are for example used predominantly in laptop batteries. Plenty of other tools use this type of cells.

As of this moment they are being buried in the ground as there is no viable method or technology to recycle them and recover metals they contain.

Nothing silly, uninformed or ludicrous about that. Simple facts which somehow tarnish that fantastic "EV's for everyone" wet dream.

You seems to be confused in regards to amounts involved. As it happens I know a bit about recycling of lithium batteries. Those are here for quite some time so your comment about "how EV batteries are not even nearly end of life yet" is attempt to deflect from single fact that there is no solution for recycling them and to this date apart from some test plants nobody is recycling them.

What you call "scavenging" is happening quite a long time primary source is battery pack like laptop battery. Cells capacity varies from 20-60% and even cells with 80% capacity can be found. Semi good cells end up in power-walls where they can work for some time but after some use and loss of capacity they go to the same place where corroded, shorted and 20% or less capacity cells end up.

Buried in landfill, since recycling them is more expensive and not environmentally friendly. It is far cheaper to mine minerals at this moment than trying to recover them from used lithium batteries.

If you still think this is silly uninformed or ludicrous be so kind and show me where is lithium batteries recovery and recycling done and show me the numbers involved :)