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To: Ingtar

Let’s see the range on a typical winter day with the heater running and hot summer day with the air conditioner blasting especially if the car is left outside overnight. What rare earth metals are used in the battery? Who supplies these minerals besides the Chinese? What are the environmental impacts of mining these rare earths? What is the replacement cost of the batteries?


11 posted on 09/30/2011 9:20:21 AM PDT by businessprofessor
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To: businessprofessor

” Let’s see the range on a typical winter day with the heater running and hot summer day with the air conditioner blasting especially if the car is left outside overnight. What rare earth metals are used in the battery? Who supplies these minerals besides the Chinese? What are the environmental impacts of mining these rare earths? What is the replacement cost of the batteries? “

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!
These are exactly the common-sense questions that have to be kept in the forefront of this topic. Solve these problems, and you’ve got something. Ignore them, and you fail miserably.


28 posted on 09/30/2011 9:40:51 AM PDT by Humble Servant
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