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Originally Posted by gordner
My understanding is that the true impact of a hybrid or electric vehicle is not how the electricity is generated (hydro vs coal vs nuclear etc...) but in how brutal for the environent the mining for the materials to make the batteries is. I recall reading that each volt would have to replace over a hundred already manufactured vehicles before the environmental impact would be less than continuing to drive those older vehicles.
And then you get into what do you do with the batteries when they are done....there are no proper disposal programs for the materials in those next gen batteries.
Electric cars are a feel good placebo to those that don't fully research the realities in my opinion
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It's a lot worse than we know. One of my past jobs with Siemens was modernizing power solutions in the third world mining meccas. Lithium mining is unbelievably bad. Worked by slaves, and killing millions of acres of land so we can drive Volts.
If you saw the conditions at Lithium mines you would cry for the people and the environment. This is just some of the aftermath; your average South American Lithium miner lives to the ripe age of 20.
This is just wrong way to go on so many levels.
It's really just slavery and the wholesale destruction of the planet so that Leonardino Decaprio can feel good when he drives his Tesla.