Mix_Master wrote on Jan 4
th, 2021 at 4:04pm:
Reading yet another article in The Age, talking about the mooted take-up of EVs (presumably, to "count" as part of a reduced transport sector emissions target).
Makes me wonder just "when" is the right time to get rid of the petrol vehicles (while some money can still be had for them), and to get into an electric vehicle (again, presumably when they aren't as damnably expensive to "get into", and there is sufficient charging infrastructure around for longer distance driving etc.)
One other question I had was "What happens to the batteries in EVs when they reach end of service life"?
The following is a (necessarily long-winded) discussion of through and post-life use, decommissioning and recycling of Li-ion batteries from EVs.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1682-5Naturally, questions also arise in respect of the "total" environmental cost of the production, use and ultimate disposal of the batteries.
Are we "trading" one form of environmental damage (fossil fuel emissions), for others?
' ............... Makes me wonder just "when" is the right time to get rid of the petrol vehicles (while some money can still be had for them), and to get into an electric vehicle ......... '
Good question.
Maybe when your driving can be catered to by an electric car?
Perhaps some 2 car households could be 1 petrol and one electric ?
In our future I am looking at one car and using bikes for may day to day trips, ie, when retired.
As the economic difference may not be really huge, not a big call so far.
Electric cars do cost money to run.