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Originally Posted by ADDvanced
Again, my 22 year old hybrid with 300k miles says you don't know what you're talking about. Got 64mpg on my last trip into the city to buy a set of wheels. Car has paid for itself several times over.
Not that I expect someone of your mindset to ever acknowledge not being an expert in all things. I would put good money that you're also a constitutional historian*, geopolitical scholar*, microbiologist*, or scientist*, depending on the week, amirite?
*: with absolutely zero formal education or real world experience in any of these fields
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Ah..Were you ever curious what the metal of the "nickel metal hydride" battery that your hybrid uses? lanthanum....
Wanna see a lanthanum strip mine?... And this is a US based one.
As for the 64 mpg... that's cool. My ALH diesel achieves mid 40's without a battery pack and on a mechanical injection pump. My mk6 TDI got high 40's with the MPG robbing tune. Could you imagine a diesel hybrid?... yeah that would be really really cool.
Now since I'm done tearing down your straw man argument about your hybrid that you threw out. Let's discuss what I mentioned... About EV!
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EV are only as green as the electricity that they use
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Was it worth it for all the open pit mining for lanthanides and other rare earth metals?
How about the recycling of the batteries by third world countries....?
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As for expert in things. I'm not much, nor am I that smart. Only 1 publication atm.
Formal education has taught me a few things and tricks. My greatest strengths are orgo/solid state synthesis and sniffing out leftists BS.