Li recycling 2% old fashioned lead acid 98%
In the podcast "Let's Talk About Electric Vehicles" Season 1, Episode 3 the podcaster discusses what happens to discarded lithium batteries. The podcaster lists sources and citations in the show notes...
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AAA did a study that showed 95% of electric vehicles in use today have sufficient range, according to their owners. The study also found some other interesting stuff.
The range anxiety paradox is from people who have no experience with a battery electric vehicle, or have used one for the wrong purpose. The paradox comes from the industry trying to respond with bigger batteries ($$) to satisfy a need from people who haven't used the technology to satisfy a range need that doesn't exist 95% of the time...
I wonder, for example, when I see a pickup trucker towing an overloaded dump or flatbed - with a squatted out $90K Sooper Duty - and I'm driving my Kenworth - why don't they use the pickup properly or get a truck built for that kind of use? I doan know... - but for 95% of pickup owners I bet the truck does the job they bought it for properly - mine do...
If I suggested golf cars should be diesels because they would have 4 days of 36 holes range without refuelling, that would make sense, right?
The range anxiety paradox is from people who have no experience with a battery electric vehicle, or have used one for the wrong purpose. The paradox comes from the industry trying to respond with bigger batteries ($$) to satisfy a need from people who haven't used the technology to satisfy a range need that doesn't exist 95% of the time...
I wonder, for example, when I see a pickup trucker towing an overloaded dump or flatbed - with a squatted out $90K Sooper Duty - and I'm driving my Kenworth - why don't they use the pickup properly or get a truck built for that kind of use? I doan know... - but for 95% of pickup owners I bet the truck does the job they bought it for properly - mine do...
If I suggested golf cars should be diesels because they would have 4 days of 36 holes range without refuelling, that would make sense, right?
