Cost of EV Batteries
Caught this earlier today which may tend to sway some buyers and I suspect it won't end there. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/09/ford-increasing-price-of-electric-f-150-lightning-.html In addition if y...
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time2roll wrote:way2roll wrote:The green alternative might only be for most to become farmers and live like the Amish.
Someone please tell me what's green in the manufacture of EV's and their lifecycle without falling back on tailpipe emissions.
At least when lithium is mined it can be used for 20 years and then mostly recycled.
Oil is drilled, pumped, refined and burned. Any idea how long the carbon cycle will take to put that resource back in the ground to be used again?
You can't cherry pick parts of the process. Holistically EV's aren't green. They just aren't. And comparing it to the Amish is a straw man argument. I would love to see any evidence that mining, shipping, trucking, manufacturing, disposal, charging or ANY part of the process of EV's cradle to grave is green. Let alone marginally better than ICE's. And financially (aside from those profiting from their sale) I don't see the upside. When the batteries wear out the replacement cost eclipses the value of the vehicle. Guess what happens then. And that happens much sooner than the majority of ICE's. Demand on the power grid will increase everyone's taxes for the infrastructure and cost for electricity whether you own an EV or not. Subsidies are making some folks extremely wealthy - that comes from taxpayers. Ford just announced they are cutting 3,000 jobs due to the migration to EV's. Never mind the continued dependence on foreign nations. This is all being packaged up and forced upon us wrapped up in a nice green bow.
Again, I am not anti EV. I am against peeing down my back and telling me it's raining while digging in my pockets.
