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Originally Posted by James
I think I read that battery production will require heavy strip-mining of certain elements, and production won't necessarily scale up to current car-manufacture levels.
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Not only that but batteries can't be infinitely recharged - even the most robust ones these days have a realistic lifespan of 3 to 5 years and that's with diminishing efficiency (you won't get anywhere near as far on a full charge after 3 years as you will fresh out the factory). Exactly the same as with phone batteries.
One car will easily go through 4 or 5 batteries during its lifetime.
Obviously this is true of "normal" car batteries too, but the massive batteries in an electric vehicle obviously use far more resources per battery than a standard 12v or 24v car battery.