Will there not be just as much of a carbon footprint from mining materials to make batteries for all the new electric cars?
And all the precious metals that go into making electronics to make that car operate?
Plus the power generation associated with charging everyone’s vehicle.
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Electric car tech is is simpler to maintain and thus requires less replacement parts long term, that alone cuts back on providing as much part surplus. There’s still a lot of parts that aren’t EV related in such cars but the motor and transmission parts alone usually require more precise machining and precious metals, simplifying that eases resource usage.
Battery tech is where the bulk of the controversy comes from, lithium is not easy and cheap to process, with lots of pollution created from the extraction alone. Thankfully, newer improvements in already well established theory have made it so in the near future we’ll have denser energy packs, cheaper, safer, and less pollutant to the environment.
Charging from a fossil fuel plant is still more efficient than the small engines of cars. Also, thorium and other renewable resources make for a great solution long term over existing power plants.
I have a love hate relationship with modern cars, too much technology, too much that will fail and harder for the user to repair. Once the newer battery tech comes out and become cheap enough I’ll convert an old beetle.
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