Canada’s most populous provinces are falling behind many U.S. states when it comes to building fast charging stations for electric vehicles, a CBC News analysis shows, raising questions about whether this country’s infrastructure is ready for a transition to cleaner energy.
@Stochastic @danielquinn
EVs are an environmental disaster because:
one, even a minor accident makes the vehicle unrepairable, because the battery packs can’t be tested to verify if they’ve been damaged
and
two, battery packs are worth up to 50% of an EVs’ price, so replacing them is cost-prohibitive, so EVs are written off after 8-10 yrs (because the batteries are old tech at that point and can cost upwards of $15k to replace).
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/scratched-ev-battery-your-insurer-may-have-junk-whole-car-2023-03-20/
https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/hybrids-evs/what-happens-to-the-old-batteries-in-electric-cars-a1091429417/
8-10yrs? Why on earth would a functioning 500km range EV that’s 10yrs old be labelled as scrap-worthy?
Why is it people always skip the second part of the article?
The one thing advocates against EV’s conveniently ignore, is that batteries are unlikely to go straight to landfill.
The other thing is that batteries are rapidly evolving and even companies like CATL apparently have a battery which has greatly improved energy density… As time progresses, Electric cars will require fewer batteries In fact, technologies like Lithium Air batteries (under development), offer 5x greater density, and other technologies like Solid State Sulfide are also in development.
There’s so much work happening here. And it’s already proven on average that they’re already more environmentally friendly (and will soon be substantially more so).