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Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by sportsracersss on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:44PM (#50397380)
Producing that enormous battery pack is nasty and stinky and noisy and polluting. It's just a cost that's paid upfront and the pollution is done in someone else's backyard.
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Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by solyin on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:24PM (#50397945)
It's paid up front once. That battery is going to keep being a battery for the rest of its commercially viable lifespan. The gasoline just gets used up and you pollute over and over again to maintain having power.
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Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by InvertedRhodium on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:09PM (#50399756)
Better theirs than mine or yours.
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Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by mckn1ght on Saturday November 07, 2026 @05:34AM (#50403308)
Producing a gas powered car is just as stinky and nasty, so they cancel each other out. Once the EV is made, that can be the end of it.
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Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by JuniperMesos on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:47AM (#50403716)
Still a net pollution win. Pollution associated with industrial manufacturing of durable goods can be contained to specific areas and dealt with at scale by domain experts more easily than the diffuse pollution associated with burning fuel at point of use.
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