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Old Sep 3rd, 2019, 09:33   #15
TonyB65
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Default The elephants in the room are....

How all these electrical vehicles are going to be made considering the following:

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/press-office/p...g-net-zer.html

and I quote

The metal resource needed to make all cars and vans electric by 2050 and all sales to be purely battery electric by 2035. To replace all UK-based vehicles today with electric vehicles (not including the LGV and HGV fleets), assuming they use the most resource-frugal next-generation NMC 811 batteries, would take 207,900 tonnes cobalt, 264,600 tonnes of lithium carbonate (LCE), at least 7,200 tonnes of neodymium and dysprosium, in addition to 2,362,500 tonnes copper. This represents, just under two times the total annual world cobalt production, nearly the entire world production of neodymium, three quarters the world’s lithium production and at least half of the world’s copper production during 2018. Even ensuring the annual supply of electric vehicles only, from 2035 as pledged, will require the UK to annually import the equivalent of the entire annual cobalt needs of European industry.

That's before we consider the environmental impact of electric cars, which are being deliberately ignored:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...an-gas-powered

We're being sold a pup here, especially as the whole "CO2 is killing the planet" hoax is literally based on junk science from scientists with a 100% track record of getting it wrong.

I'll stick to diesel thanks, you can keep your electric white elephants.
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