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Originally Posted by Car-Addicted
By 2035 enough of these will have caught fire and burned to the ground, enough people will find out that batteries are not forever and the cost to replacement then is north of $15,000 bucks. Maybe a few people will figure out that the environmental damage from producing and disposing of these cars makes a Hummer look green.
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Sometimes it does feel like we're just shifting everything society has been nudged to hate about drilling and burning oil to the dirty business of mining minerals, the waste created in the manufacturing of batteries, and the ultimate disposal and additional waste generated by the recycling process.
Couple this with other realities like the enormous weight of EVs leading to increases in tire consumption pollution, and the lack of sufficient infrastructure in much of the world to support charging/recycling/disposal. Will be interesting to see whether Porsche's synthetic fuel and other alternatives get traction.