Hey folks, I know I post a bunch of jokes on here but this one is unfortunately going to be far more serious.
I managed to obtain a photo of the employee who leaked information about this update. He is currently being detained at the Irvine CA police department for crimes against Adventure...
I think we very much agree that strip mining is a huge problem and I dont in any way want to trivialize the damage it causes but I think your pictures, while dramatic, dont tell the full story when being compared to oil extraction.
I think we have to account for spills and other impacts of...
Absolutely it is critical but wouldn't all that be roughly the same for an equivalent ICE vehicle?
Also I think you need to account for all the water used in things like fracking for oil, etc.
I think I saw the reddit post about this. They are in the current season of Y Combinator right?
These guys? https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/aeoncharge
Really curious what the business plan is. Seems like a difficult space to carve out with competition from Google/Apple Pay, credit...
I think the congressional report has some info in the appendix tables.
Edit: end of summary on page 2 and in Figure 13. Life Cycle Assessment: Water Consumption
The NYT article mentioned 50% not 55% fwiw and linked to that congressional report.
relevant section from the nyt:
You got a...
There's a reason I bought one of these
It's a completely unrelated reason but it does also have the word juice in it.
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That water number is interesting and not something I have heard before, thanks for sharing it.
I did some digging and it appears to come from a NYT article
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/climate/electric-vehicles-environment.html
Which references a Congressional Research report...
Wait! There is one more step to prove it to us.
Can you post a photo of you handing me all your keys and title and registration? You know for verification of course.
(seriously though congrats! happy for you)