I work on cars. Teslas are the biggest pieces of shit I've ever seen recently. Horrible quality issues. Thin paint, thin sheet metal, misaligned panels, constant computer glitching, corrosion issues, and a horrible parts supply network. If your $100k iPad goes in the shop don't expect to have it back for a month or more. If you want an electric car, Hyundai makes a damn good one at half the price.
VW has a solution that makes the most sense. Solar bio fuels.
Regardless, cars are demonized because they're easy targets. Destruction of ecology, suburban sprawl, plastic waste, monocropped agriculture and meat, etc. have a much larger impact on the environment as a whole than bubba's V8 truck ever did.
I’ve had a Tesla for six years. There were definitely quality problems, but they fixed them ALL. This is now the most reliable, lowest maintenance car I’ve ever owned. 80k miles and rolling.
Oh yea, and Tesla can recycle 97% of the material in the battery pack.
This is more important than quality issues; the fact that they're gettibg fixed. People forget that these are largely still quasi-prototypes that are being fine tuned by a young company.
And yes, obviously you would recycle the batteries, the same way you do with every other battery. Throwing a battery in the dump is like pouring gasoline into a storm drain; if you do that, you're the asshole, not tesla.
Depleted Tesla batteries sell for $5000, I believe is the number I've heard. The minerals are very valuable and are used to create new lithium batteries.
I work on cars. Teslas are the biggest pieces of shit I've ever seen recently. Horrible quality issues. Thin paint, thin sheet metal, misaligned panels, constant computer glitching, corrosion issues, and a horrible parts supply network. If your $100k iPad goes in the shop don't expect to have it back for a month or more. If you want an electric car, Hyundai makes a damn good one at half the price.
VW has a solution that makes the most sense. Solar bio fuels.
https://www.greencarcongress.com/2021/05/20210504-bluegasoline.html
Regardless, cars are demonized because they're easy targets. Destruction of ecology, suburban sprawl, plastic waste, monocropped agriculture and meat, etc. have a much larger impact on the environment as a whole than bubba's V8 truck ever did.
I’ve had a Tesla for six years. There were definitely quality problems, but they fixed them ALL. This is now the most reliable, lowest maintenance car I’ve ever owned. 80k miles and rolling.
Oh yea, and Tesla can recycle 97% of the material in the battery pack.
This is more important than quality issues; the fact that they're gettibg fixed. People forget that these are largely still quasi-prototypes that are being fine tuned by a young company.
And yes, obviously you would recycle the batteries, the same way you do with every other battery. Throwing a battery in the dump is like pouring gasoline into a storm drain; if you do that, you're the asshole, not tesla.
Depleted Tesla batteries sell for $5000, I believe is the number I've heard. The minerals are very valuable and are used to create new lithium batteries.