--- --- # We Might Not Have Enough Minerals To Meet Electric Car Demand by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 1, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 1, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**We might not have enough minerals to meet electric car demand.**](https://jalopnik.com/we-may-not-have-enough-minerals-to-even-meet-electric-c-1820008337) By Erik Shilling in J_alopnik_ **2\.** [**Could this pay-by-the-minute gym app make memberships history?**](https://www.fastcompany.com/40465730/can-a-pay-by-the-minute-gym-app-make-memberships-a-thing-of-the-past) By Rina Raphael in _Fast Company_ **3\.** [**Spider venom could unlock environmentally friendly pesticides.**](https://qz.com/1115267/a-new-wave-of-environmentally-friendly-pesticides-will-come-from-spider-venom/) By Katherine Ellen Foley in _Quartz_ **4\.** [**In Lima, billboards don’t just advertise. They’re cleaning the air and providing drinking water.**](http://www.ozy.com/acumen/a-billboard-that-acts-like-1200-trees/32438) By Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin in _Ozy_ **5\.** [**Self-driving cars may revolutionize life for people with disabilities.**](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/are-self-driving-cars-future-mobility-disabled-people-180965241/) By Srikanth Saripalli in _Smithsonian_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: Not Enough Minerals For Electric Car Demand ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5005168/we-might-not-have-enough-minerals-to-meet-electric-car-demand/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5005168/we-might-not-have-enough-minerals-to-meet-electric-car-demand/"},"headline":"We Might Not Have Enough Minerals To Meet Electric Car Demand","datePublished":"2017-11-01T16:00:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:22.017Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5005168/we-might-not-have-enough-minerals-to-meet-electric-car-demand/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Environment","Innovation","nature","Electric Cars","gym","self-driving cars"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5005168/we-might-not-have-enough-minerals-to-meet-electric-car-demand/","name":"We Might Not Have Enough Minerals To Meet Electric Car Demand"}}]}] ```