Enrico Trigoso at BasedUnderground has a report that should make every driver think twice before switching to an electric vehicle (EV):
The corporate-controlled media
is finally coming around to accepting the truth about the
electric vehicle (EV) revolution, which is not even close to being as
environmentally friendly as its supporters and promoters claim.
Reuters published
a piece this week revealing that even the smallest EV accidents, including
minor fender-benders, almost always result in insurance companies having to
total the entire car. The reason for this has to do with EV batteries, which
are so expensive to replace that it makes more sense to just replace the entire
car.
“We’re buying electric cars for
sustainability reasons,” said Matthew Avery, research director at the
automotive risk intelligence company Thatcham Research. “An EV isn’t very
sustainable if you’ve got to throw the battery away after a minor collision.”
The battery pack in your average
Tesla, for example, costs tens of thousands of dollars to replace. The battery
pack alone represents a sizable portion of the vehicle’s overall price tag, it
turns out.
Tesla and many other EV
manufacturers have made battery packs a structural component of their cars in
order to reduce costs for end consumers – but at what cost to the environment?
Unless EV manufacturers change the ways in which they incorporate battery packs
into their cars, all this needless waste will continue to pile up. . . .
. . .
(Related: It will never be possible for the electric grid as it
currently exists to charge everybody’s EVs once gas-powered vehicles are gone.) . . .
More at the link here.
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