Study: Going electric cleaner overall than keeping an old car running (dpa-international.com)

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

It's absolutely not considering the consequences of the heavy metal mining that is required to produce those massive batteries. It also totally ignores the problem of how to dispose of, reuse, or recycle those old batteries once they can no longer be effective in your vehicle.

You've answered your own question while it's still relevant. But wow, is it tiresome to repeat the same things.

Heavy metal mining is a short-term thing, and you already know about the carbon batteries that's replacing them.
Need more lithium and also have a growing junk stash of tons of lithium batteries full of .. lithium? Take a minute ... see if you can get there.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Need more lithium and also have a growing junk stash of tons of lithium batteries full of … lithium? Take a minute … see if you can get there.

Why do you complain about needing food? There's a pile of excrement right there. It's the same elemental composition as what you normally eat.

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