The chemicals in lithium-ion batteries are 85% reusable so far, with current recycling methods (lithium is lost, but are surface pond mined... hard metals are 100% reusable over and over again).
The 500t claim doesn't acknowledge that other non-battery minerals are also extracted during the process as well, also refined and sold, like copper, iron, nickle, carbon, zinc, aluminum, magnesium, lead, etc. Minerals don't exist individually, they exist together in ore streams.
Once the battery is created, you can charge it for 10-15 years using solar panels, no longer excerting energy to generate driveable distance.
Oil rigs and oil refining is also an energy intensive and dirty process. To build and deliver an oil rig on location, drill hundreds of feet into the ocean, transport workers and oil back and forth, etc for 10-15 comparable years of gas needed to fuel your gasoline vehicle to a comparable mileage.
Once extracted, oil must be refined (energy intensive and dirty), and energy is spent on ships and trucks to deliver that gasoline to your nearest gas station every single week for the next 10-15 years, so that you have access to gasoline always available.
Once the battery is recycled and put into a new vehicle, you don't need to move another 500 tons of earth, while a gas vehicle requires another 10-15 years of oil mining and delivery.
500t is not a lot of dirt. Mining haul trucks can carry 350t to 400t. So you're talking about 1.5 loads per battery pack, and those loads include non-battery pack minerals.
Solar is indeed capable of charging a vehicle. 10 kwh of solar, that you can mount on your home's roof, can produce 40-60 kwh a day, dependent on location. Works in the winter too, only very overcast/snow days interrupt production.
A 60 kwh battery is 200+ miles of distance.
Not even mentioning upcoming lightweight vehicles like Aptera that get 700-1000 miles on 50 kwh.
Support that with nuclear.
Even using natural gas to generate electricity will produce less emissions than gasoline vehicles.
Even having a coal/oil plant generate electricity to charge vehicles, will reduce emissions, because people can fill-up at home, which eliminate an entire distribution network of last-mile transport trucks and gas stations.
As electric car usage increases, gas stations will be fueled less often (ie. instead of daily, only refueled every 3rd day). Which means less trucks burning emissions to deliver gasoline.
More efficient to use trains to deliver coal to power plants in large loads, rather than thousands of trucks delivering gasoline nationwide every day.
It will be a slow process to replace existing usage and infrastructure, but eventually most vehicles will be electric.
Cargo ships and large machinery will likely continue to run on gas and diesel, but ie. 85-90% of consumer travel will be electric.
And other solutions will play a role too. ie. Germany is already building electric lanes on highways so delivery trucks can run on grid power. Like trolley buses, these trucks have arms that extend to connect to overhead wires. So large batteries are not always necessary.
There are also tens of millions of small engines like scooters, motorcycles, lawnmowers, generators that burn fuel, which in most cases, can be replaced with electric alternatives.
I watch a YouTuber who creates motorcycles that hit 100 mph and over 80 miles of range.
The biggest issue right now is pricing and supply of batteries. But as the next 10 years progress, the increased supply of lithium batteries will transform the consumer ecosystem of these goods, and ease of access to lithium powered devices.
Yeah, there's a lot to unpack there, but basically intention and trust.
"Climate Change" narrative is alarmist, which means it has alterior intentions (to accumulate political power).
And the idea that we need to trust government and business, the largest proponents of consumerism and pollution, to deliver global sustainability of our waters and air. Doubt at their ability to execute, and fear they'll just take the tax money and won't deliver anything.
We live in a time of corruption and division, so it's difficult to have faith in a future that relies on trust and cooperation.
But human potential is far greater than what we have allowed so far as a collective. And an increasing collective awareness, which has been revealing darkness under the light of truth, has been paving a way for a new and better future.
The collective desire is there, and those who don't allow it, or try to block it, will face a great resistance.
The chemicals in lithium-ion batteries are 85% reusable so far, with current recycling methods (lithium is lost, but are surface pond mined... hard metals are 100% reusable over and over again).
The 500t claim doesn't acknowledge that other non-battery minerals are also extracted during the process as well, also refined and sold, like copper, iron, nickle, carbon, zinc, aluminum, magnesium, lead, etc. Minerals don't exist individually, they exist together in ore streams.
Once the battery is created, you can charge it for 10-15 years using solar panels, no longer excerting energy to generate driveable distance.
Oil rigs and oil refining is also an energy intensive and dirty process. To build and deliver an oil rig on location, drill hundreds of feet into the ocean, transport workers and oil back and forth, etc for 10-15 comparable years of gas needed to fuel your gasoline vehicle to a comparable mileage.
Once extracted, oil must be refined (energy intensive and dirty), and energy is spent on ships and trucks to deliver that gasoline to your nearest gas station every single week for the next 10-15 years, so that you have access to gasoline always available.
Once the battery is recycled and put into a new vehicle, you don't need to move another 500 tons of earth, while a gas vehicle requires another 10-15 years of oil mining and delivery.
500t is not a lot of dirt. Mining haul trucks can carry 350t to 400t. So you're talking about 1.5 loads per battery pack, and those loads include non-battery pack minerals.
Solar is indeed capable of charging a vehicle. 10 kwh of solar, that you can mount on your home's roof, can produce 40-60 kwh a day, dependent on location. Works in the winter too, only very overcast/snow days interrupt production.
A 60 kwh battery is 200+ miles of distance.
Not even mentioning upcoming lightweight vehicles like Aptera that get 700-1000 miles on 50 kwh.
Support that with nuclear.
Even using natural gas to generate electricity will produce less emissions than gasoline vehicles.
Even having a coal/oil plant generate electricity to charge vehicles, will reduce emissions, because people can fill-up at home, which eliminate an entire distribution network of last-mile transport trucks and gas stations.
As electric car usage increases, gas stations will be fueled less often (ie. instead of daily, only refueled every 3rd day). Which means less trucks burning emissions to deliver gasoline.
More efficient to use trains to deliver coal to power plants in large loads, rather than thousands of trucks delivering gasoline nationwide every day.
It will be a slow process to replace existing usage and infrastructure, but eventually most vehicles will be electric.
Cargo ships and large machinery will likely continue to run on gas and diesel, but ie. 85-90% of consumer travel will be electric.
And other solutions will play a role too. ie. Germany is already building electric lanes on highways so delivery trucks can run on grid power. Like trolley buses, these trucks have arms that extend to connect to overhead wires. So large batteries are not always necessary.
There are also tens of millions of small engines like scooters, motorcycles, lawnmowers, generators that burn fuel, which in most cases, can be replaced with electric alternatives.
I watch a YouTuber who creates motorcycles that hit 100 mph and over 80 miles of range.
The biggest issue right now is pricing and supply of batteries. But as the next 10 years progress, the increased supply of lithium batteries will transform the consumer ecosystem of these goods, and ease of access to lithium powered devices.
Yeah, there's a lot to unpack there, but basically intention and trust.
"Climate Change" narrative is alarmist, which means it has alterior intentions (to accumulate political power).
And the idea that we need to trust government and business, the largest proponents of consumerism and pollution, to deliver global sustainability of our waters and air. Doubt at their ability to execute, and fear they'll just take the tax money and won't deliver anything.
We live in a time of corruption and division, so it's difficult to have faith in a future that relies on trust and cooperation.
But human potential is far greater than what we have allowed so far as a collective. And an increasing collective awareness, which has been revealing darkness under the light of truth, has been paving a way for a new and better future.
The collective desire is there, and those who don't allow it, or try to block it, will face a great resistance.