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Originally Posted by jscott
That's great!!! Too bad those "battery tech" vehicles are destroying huge portions of Earth.
"The common environmental side effects of lithium mining are water loss, ground destabilisation, biodiversity loss, increased salinity of rivers, contaminated soil and toxic waste. In the Salar de Uyuni, water loss is the main cause for concern."
But thankfully these fields are elsewhere, so we can be happy  |
Guess you don't use a laptop or a mobile phone? I'm hoping that we'll find a better source to power our vehicles (hydrogen maybe), but till then, EVs are a better solution.
It takes 1500+kwh to mine a single bitcoin. Enough energy to power an average US household for 50 days.
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Originally Posted by pornguy
And just wait until you have to replace one or all of those batteries.
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Are you referencing the cost of changing the batteries or the storage of spent batteries? EV batteries are actually highly recyclable. About 90% of the cell anyway. The EU even has directives that require batteries to be at least 50% recyclable.
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Originally Posted by NatalieK
and i heard tyre wear is astronomical, save oil, burn rubber  |
They had similar tyre wear issues on ICE cars back when ICE cars were a new concept. They evolve and get better. However, tyres on an EV aren't wearing out at the same rate as you burn fuel in an ICE car so that's not really a like for like comparison, is it? Let's not mention that tyres are recyclable.