No, coal is used for about 20% of US electricity production. NG is about 40%. Child labor is mostly associates with cobalt mining. The use of cobalt is dropping. For example, about half of Tesla’s batteries are now LFP. Speaking of Europe, some of the European countries are among the fastest adopters of electric cars.
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Originally Posted by l2ridehd
My issue’s are how we get electricity. It’s still 40% coal. So until we move to more renewable or more nuclear it just doesn’t make any sense. All your doing is moving the problem someplace else. And then there is the issue with batteries. Most of the scarce elements are mined by child labor. Then there is the disposal issue, the electric grid issues and the charging issues. IMHO we are a very long way from moving off gasoline. Hydrogen makes a lot more sense if it can be done. We have not even began to see all the environmental issue with batteries.
Perhaps we need more electric trains like Europe has. No batteries and move 100’s of people at a time. We did have the track system but let it fall apart. Still cheaper solution then all the others. Used to have a train station in every small town in America. We could again.
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