If That Tesla Battery Could Talk

[Summitric]

He paused, “I weigh 1,000 pounds, and as you see, I am about the size of a travel trunk. I contain 25 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds cobalt, 200 pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic. Inside me are 6,831 individual lithium-ion cells.
“It should concern you that all those toxic components come from mining. For instance, to manufacture EACH auto battery like me, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth’s crust for just. one. battery.
“I mentioned disease and child labor a moment ago. Here’s why. Sixty-eight percent of the world’s cobalt, a significant part of a battery, comes from the Congo. Their mines have no pollution controls, and they employ children who die from handling this toxic material. Should we factor in these diseased kids as part of the cost of driving an electric car?”



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If That Tesla Battery Could Talk
Let’s imagine what an EV battery could tell us about its reality. A short story. H/T Graeme Weber

 

[Teth-Air]

You forgot to mention cobalt has been on the "suspected carcinogen list" since 2016.

 

[4extreme]

He paused, “I weigh 1,000 pounds, and as you see, I am about the size of a travel trunk. I contain 25 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds cobalt, 200 pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic. Inside me are 6,831 individual lithium-ion cells.
“It should concern you that all those toxic components come from mining. For instance, to manufacture EACH auto battery like me, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth’s crust for just. one. battery.
“I mentioned disease and child labor a moment ago. Here’s why. Sixty-eight percent of the world’s cobalt, a significant part of a battery, comes from the Congo. Their mines have no pollution controls, and they employ children who die from handling this toxic material. Should we factor in these diseased kids as part of the cost of driving an electric car?”


RCLUTZ.COM
If That Tesla Battery Could Talk
Let’s imagine what an EV battery could tell us about its reality. A short story. H/T Graeme Weber

now you know that there is no place for logic when it comes to saving the planet. Its like swimming in the ocean, it all looks nice on the surface but down below fish are fighting for their lives

 

[arff]

Still a cool car....

 

[lilduke]

 

[Mike270412]

Still a cool car....

That's right. Who cares how many third world children had to die to build it.

 

[Bnorth]

But like it doesn't cost anything to charge and look how many virtue signaling 'likes' I got on the gram when I posted my new EV.

Although can someone tell me how they went from 85,000 lbs to 500,000 lbs of ore in their little blurb? Seems like liberal math.

 

[tmo1620]

But like it doesn't cost anything to charge and look how many virtue signaling 'likes' I got on the gram when I posted my new EV.

Although can someone tell me how they went from 85,000 lbs to 500,000 lbs of ore in their little blurb? Seems like liberal math.

I’m guessing the other 400,000+ lbs is dirts that’s covering all the raw materials


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[catalac]

Tesla claims batteries are 92% recyclable. Elon is smarter than 99.99% of the pundit’s out there, suspect he’s got it figured.

When Tesla Says It Recycles 100% of Its Batteries, What Does That Mean?

Battery recycling is notoriously expensive, inefficient, and dangerous. Getting better at it is crucial to making sure electric cars are cleaner.

www.vice.com

 

[Frosty19]

It's a perpetual battle of skewing facts of what is true or not between ICEs and EVs.
Without decades of data it will be hard to quantify the environmental impact of EVs, the same as what it's taken for ICEs to come under such scrutiny.

Just my 2 cents

 

[jhurkot]

If you hate mining I have some bad news about every piece of metal you’ve ever seen in your life….


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[sirkdev]

It's a perpetual battle of skewing facts of what is true or not between ICEs and EVs.
Without decades of data it will be hard to quantify the environmental impact of EVs, the same as what it's taken for ICEs to come under such scrutiny.

Just my 2 cents

Agreed 100% just need some real "cradle to grave" emissions impacts so we can interpret this. The clean agenda is pushed so hard that it defies all the rules and actual math.

 

[Caper11]

If you hate mining I have some bad news about every piece of metal you’ve ever seen in your life….


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That’s a topic that younger generations cannot seem to fathom. The topics is reality.


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[Summitric]

That’s a topic that younger generations cannot seem to fathom. The topics is reality.


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and plastics...

 

[BILTIT]

 

[jhurkot]

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That's so weird that you posted this because my model 3 battery pack died yesterday.

 

[rknight111]

Yikes, how much Will that be to replace the batteries

That's so weird that you posted this because my model 3 battery pack died yesterday.

 

[mclean]

Damn Russian hackers

 

[moyiesledhead]

If you hate mining I have some bad news about every piece of metal you’ve ever seen in your life….


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It's not so much about not liking mining as it is not liking the false narrative of "green" EV's.

 

[jhurkot]

Yikes, how much Will that be to replace the batteries

$12.00.

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