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Old 03-06-2023, 06:10 PM #25
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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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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.
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
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