• @[email protected]
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    241 year ago

    Let’s not propagate this argument disingenuously. Electric cars aren’t perfect, but a quick check of the history of the combustion engine will tell us that sufficient time and R&D will take care of many of the mining and materials issues that exist in current electric car manufacturing processes.

    • @[email protected]
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      151 year ago

      Those are not the primary long term problems with those. Electric cars still require roads, tires, parking lots, etc. That’s why they are ‘better’ due to no direct emissions and higher efficiency, but they can never be ‘environmentally friendly’ because they will always need expensive and harmful infrastructure.

      Plus they tend to be heavier so they cause even more damage to road surfaces.

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        121 year ago

        Even the heaviest electric car has nothing on a tractor trailer.

        Most of the damage to road infrastructure comes from big rigs.

    • @Son_of_dad
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      -131 year ago

      In sure that eases the mind of the children mining for lithium