A Prius will go about 3/4Mi on a full charge and it's battery is $6K. It's battery and electric motor is only meant to help you under high power demand conditions like starting from a dead stop, merging onto a highway, etc. The batteries in cars where that's the primary power are much larger and exponentially more expensive.
Bottom line with all of this is the environment will be harmed in some way, we just may not see it as much. Lithium mining ain't pretty by any means, but neither is emissions smog to some people. Unfortunately the US is just a small part of the problem.
That's my point.....when you have a car that has a larger battery and is powering the car fully, the costs to replace are going to be way higher. They have to last longer than what the Prius batteries will.
Bottom line with all of this is the environment will be harmed in some way, we just may not see it as much. Lithium mining ain't pretty by any means, but neither is emissions smog to some people. Unfortunately the US is just a small part of the problem.
This ^^ All that is being done is you are trading one problem for the other, always going to be a down side to a resolution. In hindsight, the real issue is our growing population and the necessity to function everyday. We are busting at the seams, yet the crazy loony dems want to let more people into this country and we can't even take care of our own citizens as it is. We are running out of land for agriculture as cities expanding and take up for urban development, we are all seeing it now, see it here in Willy. Always going to be pollution you can only get rid of so much, here's how I look at it...more people=more pollution=more problems, everything creates pollution.
Just like career politicians=corrupt government=they don't give two shits about you and I.
Good luck getting the radical left to debate on this issue. Remember they are alway right and have the facts and the rest of us don’t believe in science....... playing devils advocate it is really hard to find anything misleading in that video other than the waste part of it. They are coming up with ways and uses to recycle batteries and the turbine blades but that will use even more energy to perform. The people I have asked where we are going to get more metals such as copper and they tell me recycling ......
He pops out a lot of numbers in the video. I wonder how accurate they are?
Lets say the change to electric vehicles makes sense. Why would you kill the oil industry before you have the infrastructure and actual vehicles available frikken idiots
Is the rest of the world going to follow the US with this green shit, I think NO
Gm says no more gas or diesel powered engines by 2035.
Spot on Mort,few folks will admitt our population explosion,once prarie lands turn to farm land then developments,not sure about europe but austrailia and china nailed it so far two children per family limit.3rd world shithole countries haven't a clue they keep popping out kids,we feed them all is good for them but they follow the food source like stray animals now at our southern border looking for hand outs as refugee's/immigrants,bullshit lock down our borders period.sad deal