Sprintcyclist wrote on May 20
th, 2017 at 3:19pm:
Bigol - oh yes, electric cars are not the perfect car.
they don't do 1000 kms in a single charge
Lithium batteries are not the earth saving panacea everyone's making them out to be
In a 2013 report, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Design for the Environment program concluded that batteries using nickel and cobalt, like lithium-ion batteries, have the “highest potential for environmental impacts”. It cited negative consequences like mining, global warming, environmental pollution and human health impacts.
While Tesla declines to comment on the particular chemistry it uses, representative Khobi Brooklyn did list nickel as one of the components of the company’s batteries, and lithium is also obviously a component.
https://www.theguardian.com/vital-signs/2015/jun/10/tesla-batteries-environment-...https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2014-01/documents/lithium_batteries_l...One of the reasons China could sell lithium so cheaply was because it widely ignored environmental safeguards during the mining process. In the Bayan Obo region of China, for example, miners removed topsoil and extracted the gold-flecked metals using acids that entered the groundwater, destroying nearby agricultural land. Even the normally tight-lipped Chinese government admitted that rare earth mining has been abused in some places. A regulator at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in China went so far as to tell The New York Times, "This has caused great harm to the ecology and environment" [source: Bradsher].
http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/does-hybrid-car-...