Why western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance

Re:Why western carmakers' retreat from electric risks doomin... by beAbU on Sunday March 22, 2026 @03:12AM (#47475189)

Ice car engines also sometimes grenade themselves for no reason sometimes. Same story: too expensive to fix and on cheaper cars that means a write off.

Lithium batteries are highly recyclable, so is all the copper in the motor. I can promise you that fiat will never en on a landfill battery and all.

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Re:Why western carmakers' retreat from electric risks doomin... by TheScaryOne on Sunday March 22, 2026 @05:53PM (#47482590)

>Lithium batteries are highly recyclable

And fake meat is highly edible. But do many people eat fake meat? No. Do many people recycle lithium ion batteries? Also, no. Less than 5% is the current estimate for what percent of lithium ion batteries is recycled.

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Re:Why western carmakers' retreat from electric risks doomin... by beAbU on Monday March 23, 2026 @10:24AM (#47490000)

Do you have a source for that 5% claim? I was under the impression that batteries are mostly recycled these days, especially EV batteries.

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