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[–] SoulKaribou@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Electric cars are not a "green solution". Because of all the associated costs to produce and maintain them:

The battery requires rare minerals that are to be mined elsewhere (Africa, China, south america...), in abject conditions.

The host country needs to deploy charging stations, plugged to the grid, which has a high cost in copper, contributing to point above.

The internal wiring of the car also increase the cost, contributing also to the first point.

And what to do of all the defective/old batteries ?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 week ago

Still should better than ice but yeah replacing car with another car is hardly solution to anything environmental

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Think tanks say that constantly, what are you talking about?

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I wish there was some way you could sue the government for doing this.

[–] Woht24@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 1 points 1 week ago

Eh, they'd just raise taxes to pay for it.

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