If I had to drive an electric car, I’d be carrying a gas generator and an extra gallon or two of gas.
When you consider the entire environmental lifecycle cost of an electric car it exceeds the environmental lifecycle cost of a gas car. This includes mining and not including the cost of turning the blasted landscape to something resembling nature. Also, what do you do with the dead batteries? Fifty years from now, they will be incredibly toxic waste dumps.
All of electric cars will go away as the public begins to see those smug sanctimonious ba$tard$ for what they are. They’re right up there with vegetarians. (Have you ever met a vegetarian who didn’t tell you HE was vegetarian? I always respond with, “gosh, I’m sorry.” which leaves them with their mouth open. The advantage is I never have to listen to them preach again.)
They're high-grade lithium ore. You smelt the lithium out of them ... recycling metals is smart.
, what do you do with the dead batteries?
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I hear they burn pretty well !
Feed them into all those coal fired generating plants,
I’m sure the exhaust will be cleaner than the coal smoke,,,
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” Also, what do you do with the dead batteries? “
Used batteries go into grid storage systems.
Tesla has just completed a three year test of a new battery. Expected lifetime - 100 years / 4 million miles.
“If I had to drive an electric car, I’d be carrying a gas generator and an extra gallon or two of gas.”
No need, this is why 78% of EV owners also own a real car, while less than 1% of ICE car owners have an electric virtue signaling machine.