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EV's I still don't see how they are good for the environment. We all should be like Cuba used to be - repairing the cars we do have.
The energy and resources already used to manufacture all the cars now on the road - is wasted if we trash our cars to replace them with EVs. To build the EV's we need extra minerals and resources, non of which are great for the environment in extraction and refining.
Then the power for EV's comes from? Electricity is not 100% from renewables. Renewable infrastructure is not a clean industry. Only nuclear is the most 'clean' source we currently have.
Batteries last for a while, then what? Currently not recyclable. There's some ex-tesla guy trying to build a recycling plant for car batteries but it still has a long way to go before he figures out how to do it without the energy in being greater than the output.
We need to repair what we have built and find ways to design out our reliance on cars to conduct life.
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https://www.youtube.…instrmntl - Wow that video is hard to watch.instrmntl
- in that its awful. I feel terrible for that community.instrmntl
- manufacturers really should have an option to "modernize" older cars at a lower price-point than a new one. but updated safety features and all.doesnotexist
- There's no way to 'modernize' old cars that would be economically or environmentally viable. That's ridiculous.formed
- Renewables will be 'clean' as long as we keep moving forward (and there's not selfish morons in power, a la Texas).formed
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