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You are only analyzing, and poorly, one side of the equation. Look at the costs of drilling and transporting oil, the refinery process, the metals and components of the combustion engine(the whole engine, metals used, need for coolant, oil, all the way through to the muffler). If you want to talk about mining lithium then you also need to talk about mining palladium used in catalytic convertors for instance.
When you do a proper analysis, electric cars are much much cleaner. Not better necessarily, but definitely cleaner.
You silly person, the oil needs to be drilled and transported for your pretty little Tesla too, did you already forget that we use fossil fuels to power our electrical grid? The natural gas that provides most of the power (next to coal) is a by-product of the oil drilling industry. Take away that oil drilling industry, and half the electric power turbines in the USA grind to a halt within weeks. And the metals in a combustion engine are stable easily-recyclable non-toxic metals. Is Lithium any of those things? Now go crack open a book before your skull implodes.
Are you seriously going to say the engine in a car is more efficient than an oil power plant?
Your focus on lithium is strange. First off, you do know a lithium ion battery is only about .1% lithium right? And, it's the mining and processing of it is toxic, not really the metal itself(unless you are ingesting a lot of it). But you can say that about the mining process of all metals. Again, what about all the other chemicals, liquids and gases, that are produced from a combustion engine? You going to ignore carbon monoxide? Lubricants? Coolant? And yes, lithium batteries can be recycled.
I'll say it again, the electric car is much cleaner than a gas powered car. You can dispute that all you want but there is zero evidence to support your claim. Unless you just want to focus on lithium mining.
Are you seriously going to say the engine in a car is more efficient than an oil power plant?
Yes I am.
Your focus on lithium is strange.
Probably because the Lithium-ion form it's in can burn and release lots of that nasty shit in the air, and Teslas have been known to catch fire after even the most minor accidents. And burning anything releases carbon monoxide, but we use catalytic converters to prevent that.
I'll say it again, electric cars are false ecology and false economy in their current form. Only idiots think that Teslas are cool.
There is only 2g of palladium in a converter, maybe even less if we didn't have to have over regulations. Where as a battery car will have several kilograms of lithium.
You make it seem that half the car is palladium.
Also, one day that lithium will be useless when the next battery tech comes out. Trillions of tons of lithium will become useless worldwide when all cars are EV and many of it will be dumped carelessly, killing wildlife more so than petroleum ever did.
Only .1% of a lithium ion battery is lithium.
The other 99.9% is still another material that needs to be dug up and that material will become worthless too as batteries advance.
You are better off letting EVs take off naturally when battery tech leads, not a government based push of EVs and govt crush of petroleum vehicles.
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