• Four_lights77@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Let’s not propagate this argument disingenuously. Electric cars aren’t perfect, but a quick check of the history of the combustion engine will tell us that sufficient time and R&D will take care of many of the mining and materials issues that exist in current electric car manufacturing processes.

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      1 year ago

      Those are not the primary long term problems with those. Electric cars still require roads, tires, parking lots, etc. That’s why they are ‘better’ due to no direct emissions and higher efficiency, but they can never be ‘environmentally friendly’ because they will always need expensive and harmful infrastructure.

      Plus they tend to be heavier so they cause even more damage to road surfaces.

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        1 year ago

        Even the heaviest electric car has nothing on a tractor trailer.

        Most of the damage to road infrastructure comes from big rigs.

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      1 year ago

      We’ve been 6 months away from 1000x better batteries for the last 20 years now. It’s not happening. Companies dont want to make a battery that will charge in 10 mins and give you a million charges because they only sell you one once.