The stupidity of the human being!

bassy

Here comes the Tesla battery.

To produce it you need to excavate:

12 tons of rock for Lithium

5 tons of cobalt minerals

3 tons of mineral for nickel

12 tons of mineral for the copper

You need to move 250 tons of land to obtain:

12 kg of Lithium

13.6 pounds of nickels

22 kg of manganese

6.8 kg of Cobalt

100 Kg of Rams

200 kg of aluminum, steel and plastic.

The Caterpillar 994A used to move this earth consumes 1000 litres of diesel in 12 hours.

Here is the “zero emissions” car.

The biggest scam in history. "

yeah you’d have to be pretty stupid to think electric cars were ever touted as being zero emissions to manufacture as opposed to drive.

Allinall

How do the emissions to produce an electric car compare to those of the running of a petrol/ diesel car over say 15 years?

spacetweek

What would a similar list look like for the petrol/diesel supply chain? Absolute sh*tshow from derrick to tailpipe.

There is no shortage of "tons of rock" on Planet Earth. It will take us thousands of years to run out of lithium, cobalt etc. Each year EV batteries get more energy dense so the amount of metals needed to make one is less.

Big difference between EV batteries and fuel cars is that when the EV is scrapped, the battery is recycled. The fuel in your fuel car is destroyed and never replenished, so every day that passes we get closer to never having any more fossil fuel petrol.

That Caterpillar vehicle will be electrified too, in time, so it won't use any diesel either.

FintanMcluskey

It won't matter in our time OP.

But evwntually it will matter, and we have to try leave the planet as something people can live in

Seth Brundle

The only thing that electric cars help is the motor manufacturers!

Ubbquittious

If you think that bad look at the gold mining industry. Far lower yield per ton of rock

Then 150 tons of gold are phucked into the bin every year and not recycled. Also there isnt a massive amount left to mine

There's gold used in building cars too

SuperBowserWorld

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121707848#Comment_121707848

Yes, but you ******* destroy the soil, earth, water, air, environment extracting resources for EVs and ICE cars.

I can guarantee you if there was a lithium mine etc here, next to, oh say, Croke Patrick, people would lose their minds. But it's ok to destroy other people's environments.

Cheddar Bob

Somewhat on topic but if you're talking about human stupidity, I simply can't ever understand people who can drive for miles and miles with their indicator still on.

It's flashing infront of you.

It's making a tick tick tick sound.

How can you possibly not notice it?

Kurooi

Yes but media is telling me that buying those makes me a goody good boy.

If you don't have at least 4 of those, do you even care about the environment?