Questions

Not sure what other countries are doing about this, but Canada's aiming to have electric cars in all/most people's driveways in the somewhat distant future. Do you think this a reality for most countries or is is shooting for the stars. I've heard/read the following:

- The batteries only last so long and at 13 to 20 K for Tesla's outside the warranty period.

- If you are charging on the go, you can wait hours for a charger due to line-ups, I've seen this at a few stations along the 401 in Ontario;

- More often than not, charger stations are out of order creating longer charging line-ups at popular station stops;

- The rare earth materials used in the manufacture of the magnets in EVs is a limited resource and mostly in countries where there are no limitations on the cost of these materials, similarly the Lithium in the batteries is not a renewable resource and the amount of dirty air industry to mine these materials will simply worsen air quality in these other countries. Does this just equate to an out of sight, out of mind feel good scenario;

- That just adding an at-home charging station in your garage may not possibly due to poor electrical infrastructure in most cities. The lines can easily be upgraded on your property, but the cities don't have the electrical power to support EV charging stations in everyone's homes.

Are these true? What's your opinion, do you think electric is the way to go or will the changeover have more environmental concerns in the long-run with waste battery materials etc.. Are we trading one necessary evil (carbon emission vehicles) for another that may potentially pollute the groundwater and surface water once the batteries start piling-up...

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And more pertinently, have you filtered out any parts of this site with it?

Kinda just asking because I just figured out the trick to blocking particularly annoying images on this site in particular. I tried for a while making filters for them but they weren't working... so I went in to investigate them on the filters page manually... and it turns out that removing the "$image" bit from the end of the filter actually makes it work properly. Go figure...
So yeah, I've been routely filtering out images of gymcels and bodybuilders since they disgust me...

Anyway... you blocking anything?