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Re:Germany refuses to agree to EU ban on new fossil fuel car... by sandworm101 on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @03:11PM (#34987621)
Total lifecycle. An ic can be made out of 99% easily recyclable metals. Lithium battery tech currently remains very tricky to recycle.
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Re:Germany refuses to agree to EU ban on new fossil fuel car... by bryanlarsen on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @06:49PM (#34990027)
An ICE uses ~50 tons of gasoline over its lifetime that have to be included in total lifecycle calculations. That gasoline isn't easy to recycle.

OTOH, Lithium is easy to recycle, and a car only uses ~50kg of it.

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