• zhunk@beehaw.org
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      11 months ago

      I wish they would just say “I don’t want one” instead of trying to justify it with myths about lifetime emissions or whatever. It’s the same thing with SUVs vs station wagons or hatchbacks- just say “I want the big one” instead of trying to peddle myths about safety or something.

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        11 months ago

        Myths? Electric cars are not good for the environment, period, as their manufacture has huge impacts everywhere especially with lithium batteries.

        The important thing that the conservatives miss is that all individual car transportation is horrible for the environment. Only public transit cuts emissions massively. That’s why electric cars exist. They’re not built to save the environment. They are built to save the car as a concept and means of individual transit. To keep consumers buying more cars and car parts rather than building and investing in public transportation.

        What I find infuriating is how electric car makers lie in their advertising about how eco-friendly their vehicles are. They’re not, and they know they’re not, and they lie anyways because some people believe it.

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      11 months ago

      Short version: yes.

      Long version: No lithium, no cobalt, usually no nickel, usually no manganese, and no graphite. I’m not sure what electrolytes will prove best, but multiple metal-oxide cathodes are viable (in addition to prussian-blue analogues), and the anode is just hard carbon (basically charcoal). The raw components are plentiful on every continent. Depending on chemistry, some of the steps are potentially toxic if mishandled (chromium oxide), but no one to my knowledge has raised any major red flags.