Tag: EV
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What are the odds of an EV spontaneously combusting in your driveway?
For me it’s 50%… at least among the people I personally know who own one. I’m 57 years old. Over the years I personally owned around 14 internal combustion engine cars and 2 internal combustion engine motorcycles. None have spontaneously combusted. I know, and have been associated with, hundreds of people, maybe thousands, over my…
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Environmental green dreams are built on the backs of children and destroying the Congo
Read this short interview with Siddharth Kara over at The Free Press. Kara describes how cobalt is mined in the Congo. Child labor and environmental destruction is embedded in every piece of tech we use that has a battery. Congo has three-quarters of the world’s cobalt, as well as monopolies on coltan and tungsten—which are vital for batteries and circuits,…
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How green is this EV?
Look at how fast this bus goes up in flames. Imagine if the battery was below the passenger deck. A lithium/ion battery made poorly is a bomb waiting to go off. Putting out that fire is not all that easy. I’m sure the fumes and smoke coming off that intense fireball is not all that…