I would be cutting grass pretty much every night of the week, if all I had was a battery push mower. There's a reason they make those nice tractors with a cup holder, and I figured out what it is.
Get a long extension cord, boys. Or bring 2,000 batteries to go 2 miles.
Single point pollution sources are almost always better than dispersed pollution sources. EVs are much better than burning gas, even though they aren’t perfect and yes battery manufacturing creates pollution. But less than extracting and refining oil and then burning it.
Ok, let's say you switch all this stuff(cars, mowers, etc.) over to batteries. Now think about that. You had to make the batteries. You have to get raw lithium(assuming most batteries now are lithium ion in those applications). At some point there is a life to those batteries that are now in need of plastic housings(how do we make plastic? whoops). You have to dispose of the batteries and their housings. At some point all the cars , mowers, etc. need battery replacements. There is a life or only so many charges to them. Dump them in the ocean? Bury them? Burn them? Going to run out of lithium?
but we are saving the earf and it is out of sight and mind. Oh and Joe is beholden to China and Hunter can make some money
I don’t specifically know when it comes to things other than cars, but when it comes to cars even factoring all of that in, the greenhouse gas emissions are lower for a new EV than a new ICE car.
What an amazing economic opportunity to bring jobs to America.
where are you going to get the lithium?
Wonder how many batteries we can make, based on that one lithium mine out in Utah?
Why leave off #1 producer Australia from the list? Didn’t fit the narrative?
No, like every other part of anything they have to be manufactured.
Nuclear should be a huge part of the answer. No argument from me there.
Nope. Its easier paying people to stay and home. Besides, producing those batteries here would hurt our environment.
Yeah, the narrative is that they export 55% of their lithium to China.
Yes, there is a price to not being China’s bitch. I think most would rather keep their toys and keep being China’s bitch, but there is another option out there. There isn’t a world where we bring all that manufacturing back AND don’t have to make do with less, though.
Better go ahead and put an end of all those manufacturing jobs you want brought back to the states.
No. This is aimed at landscaping.
Battery manufacturing is going to get big here in the USA. States are targeting the shit out of that...see KY and TN and Ford, recently in the news.
Australia. And they hate China.
I bet they are less polluting that the electric cars California mandated everyone drive
Where does most of out electricity come from? So you expend all that energy to build batteries and you still have to charge them by burning coal or natural gas. You can speak of the progress of non fossil, renewable energy, but it overlooks some glaring problems.
