Re:What happens to all the dead electric-car batteries?
by ppf on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:41AM
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Those are all relatively inert parts, and scrap steel and aluminium is relatively easily extracted.
I didn't set out to argue that ICE vehicles are much better (although, honestly, I think it might be a defensible position), but the waste products from an end-of-life EV are significantly more damaging than those from an ICE.
Re:What happens to all the dead electric-car batteries?
by natch on Friday May 21, 2021 @10:18AM
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On what evidence are you basing that last assertion?
Re:What happens to all the dead electric-car batteries?
by ppf on Friday May 21, 2021 @10:53AM
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An end-of-life EV = an end-of-life ICE - a block of metal + a large lithium battery pack.
Re:What happens to all the dead electric-car batteries?
by natch on Friday May 21, 2021 @03:08PM
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I think you are resting your argument on the assumption that a large lithium battery pack is a damaging thing then. I would then ask if there is any evidence behind this assumption.
Re:What happens to all the dead electric-car batteries?
by ppf on Sunday May 23, 2021 @02:03PM
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The contents of said battery pack? I suppose they are relatively inert, if you just dumped it into landfill. But then that's still much worse than ICE engines, which can be very easily recycled.
Or illegally dumped if we follow OPs cynical reasoning.
> it's usually one of the electronic parts
I didn't know tubes, gaskets, seals, clutches, oil filters, spark plugs, fuel pumps, radiators, alternators were electronic parts.
I am not claiming EVs are perfect but to propose classical ICE vehicles are somehow much better simply does not make any sense. To exist as a modern human is to have an impact on your environment.