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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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Originally Posted by James
I was actually looking at the prices of Teslas the other day and you are basically paying £10,000 extra over an equivalent petrol or diesel car (you might get better value second-hand).
Laws like the 2030 ban are the reason Tesla is the fifth-biggest valued company in the US. Or was anyway, might have lost some of its value recently.
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Rowan Atkinson has written and article arguing that electric cars may well not be the answer.
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...son?CMP=fb_cif