Electric car batteries are a terrible idea. The mining of minerals alone is worse for the environment than fossil fuel pollution from cars. That's not counting the shipping and processing of materials, the construction of batteries, and the use of more power company-generated electricity.
Then there is the fact that batteries only last so long. You either have to spend $2400 to have them replaced or buy a new car. New electric cars are expensive and you won't see many inexpensive used ones in used car lots. You won't see classic electric vehicles driving around like you do cars with piston engines.
A normal mechanic can do little to repair a computerized, electric vehicle. Piston engine cars can be repaired and kept running forever. No so with batter powered cars.
And what happens to the worn out batteries? There's more pollution.
The reason why electric cars are being pushed is because mega corporations are salivating over the rights to mine every part of the planet, including the sea floor, for minerals like lithium, nickle and cadmium. The globalists goal is to monopolize every resource on the planet, including land, water and air. That's the future they envision, but they cleverly frame their scheme as "protecting the commons from over use". They'll own everything and do what they want with it while regulating its use by everyone else.
If people think about this for a minute, they'll realize how much money is to be made just by forcing people to buy brand new, expensive cars every few years.
Carbon dioxide wouldn't be a problem if we had a healthy ecosystem. Healthy ecosystems (trees, plants, soil and even rocks) eat carbon dioxide and thrive on it. Unfortunately, forests and rain forests keep shrinking, and giant, monocropping farms sterilize the soil that would normally act as a carbon sink.
It's convenient to force individuals to buy electric vehicle in order to lower carbon emissions while ignoring the greatest sources of carbon emissions.
- Transportation accounts for 27%, but it includes trucks, buses, ships, trains, and planes.
- Electricity production accounts for 25%. Oh, but they want us to switch to electric cars?
- Industry accounts for 24%. Greenhouse gas emissions from industry primarily come from burning fossil fuels for energy, as well as greenhouse gas emissions from certain chemical reactions necessary to produce goods from raw materials.
- Commercial and residential account for 13%. Greenhouse gas emissions from businesses and homes arise primarily from fossil fuels burned for heat, the use of certain products that contain greenhouse gases, and the handling of waste.
- Agriculture accounts for 11%. Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture come from livestock such as cows, agricultural soils, rice production and farm machinery.
- Land use and forestry account for 13%. Land areas can act as a sink (absorbing CO2) or a source of greenhouse gas emissions.
I'm all for minimizing greenhouse emissions by using scrubbers like catalytic converters to remove emissions like hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides from exhaust; making more energy efficient engines; and creating new internal combustion technologies that don't burn fossil fuels at all.
But industry always finds ways to avoid the expense of minimizing greenhouse emissions while putting the burden on common, everyday people. Power companies fought against requirements to install scrubbers. And now "carbon trading" allows polluters to continue polluting by buying carbon tax credits from countries and businesses who pollute less. Those industries externalize their costs while paying lip service to environmentalism. In the process, they also maximize spending by consumers. Why wouldn't they?
The US and Canada have all the raw materials needed to make lithium batteries together. Furthermore Tesla has a massive giga factory to assemble them in Texas. It's the older short sighted companies that insist on doing business with China despite it's obviously evil regime.
First of all you can have all the electric car batteries that you need. But it does not mean the Electric Grid could handle all these electric cars. They are offering electric cars to reduce emissions. But unfortunately they will need new coal fired electric plants to handle the load. You can't count on hydro-electric in droughts, or Nuclear seeing as too many accidents have occurred with them. We can't afford to have all our land radioactive for a couple hundred years when one does foul up. Look at Chernobyl and Fukushima.
China has been taking over ports all along the African coast. They have been dealing with corrupt governments and taking over the gold, platinum, and minerals there, so this comes as no surprise.
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Nobody makes anything in this country. Why would a business want to loccte a factory here? High corporate taxes and an anti business administration makes for a hard sell.
China is looking ahead and buying all of the raw materials for the future. They do not care about pollution or destroying the earth!
NAFTA took care of the manufacturing in this country! Thank you Billy Clinton!
We would make them if we reopened our old lithium and rare earth mines.
But liberals worry to much about the environment and whether their workers are going to get comp for stubbing their toe.
Our politicians and business elites are bought and paid for by the CCP, so that will NEVER happen, unfortunately.
I can only imagine the permitting and regulatory hoops you would have to jump through to make car batteries in the U. S. we live in regulation nation, THAT is the reason these batteries are not made here.
We have, how do you think Tesla became a thing?
From an outsider's view of the CCP, they'll probably make gas cars illegal once they make enough electric cars.
America is living on its economic butt farts from 50 years ago
Because of US regulation surrounding negative externalities. Globalization isn’t solely a bad thing.
I guarantee we designed them. China just has the low wage workers,
They have most of the worlds lithium
Lol, we’ll invade Afghanistan again.
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