Trandall
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- First Name
- Travis
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- Jan 13, 2021
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- Upstate NY
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- Rivian R1T, 2023 Mach-E
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- Construction Management
I believe BEV are debatably "greener" than the equivalent ICE, however missing from this list is the fact that strip mining rare earth metals used in BEV is exceptionally destructive to the environment. Debatably much more destructive than drilling for oil, as is coal mining for that fact. Just for the record I dislike ICE cars and am a huge fan of BEV, I just lean to the performance and technological superiority of BEV more so than the environmental angle.Because it can’t. Time for my dissertation.
But it’s just using electricity from burning coal/natural gas!
Doesn’t matter.
But producing an electric car produces more emissions than a gas car!
True! But again, it doesn’t matter.
But the batteries just end up in a landfill!
Nah. There are plans to reuse them for street lights, PowerWall-type uses
But, let’s pretend for a minute that this were true. The problem at hand right now is carbon emissions.
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