To manufacture each E.V. auto battery, the following material must be processed: 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper.
All told, suppliers must dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth’s crust for just one battery. Sixty-eight percent of the world’s cobalt, a significant part of an E.V. battery, comes from the Congo, where they have no pollution controls and minimal regulation, and they employ children, who die from handling this toxic material.
There are no emissions directly from an E.V. itself. However, there are many from mining operations. These facts are not generally publicized.
Don’t get me wrong, EV.s can be part of the solution, but doing away with fossil fuels like California wants to do is not a viable alternative now.
But folks FEEL good about it and isn’t that what counts? 😵💫😎👌
EVs were and are good for something but now they’re trying to force them into a function the tech isn’t ready for.