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Originally Posted by airwrench
BTW - I'm not an EV zealot. Just noting the responses from people that come up to me.
The batteries are a waste problem - although I'm eagerly anticipating using my old EV pack as a house solar backup solution. After that, I'm hoping there will be some type of recycling infrastructure in place - like for lead acid today. As far as manufacturing, they are just parts and cost probably not that different an amount of energy/resource to manufacture as the other parts on any vehicle. Might be almost more related to the weight of a car than it's composition.
My conclusions about the EV are that it's only good if you have other cars. We had 4 other cars when we bought it, now we have 2 others. What it is good for is taking out all those city/commuting/shopping miles. These tend to be hard on your car, as it also involves crowded parking lots, shopping cart dings, and sitting in traffic a lot. So really it's a car saver for your other cars.
I posted this discussion here because it seemed like this forum has pretty good thoughts from the various contributors.
Carl
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I don't see how spending money, burning resources building, and acquiring yet another car (along with three others) is somewhat economical.
Finding a way to make do with less, is the theme- not having specialized niches for each auto. That's as wasteful as it gets- to have another car to substitute "wear and tear" on the others, as well as "save the atmosphere" (despite enormous production costs and financial considerations) is a false economy.
rjp