If you want and can use a BEV and can afford it, good for you, go buy one.
The vast majority of Americans can neither use or afford a BEV that is not subsidized by the Taxpayers.
If you buy one, do so with the understanding, it will and has harmed the environment.
Bold statement right, but no less true.
A BEV comes into the market with a very large carbon deficient, more so than any ICE vehicle on the market today.
If you just look at the lifecycle of the battery alone, you begin to see the real carbon footprint of a BEV.
So, let’s delve into that a bit.
The minerals and rare earths needed alone require mining, lots of mining, both strip and bore mining to get the necessary ores needed. The mining alone counts for thousands of tons of carbon generated by diesel burning heavy equipment each year, that ore has to be shipped using trucks, trains and/or ships, all burning petroleum, to a smelter, generally hundreds or thousands of miles away, that also burns petroleum fuel to melt the ores to separate out the Cobalt, Lithium and other metals needed to build a BEV battery.
Aerial view of trucks loading brine from the evaporation pools of the new state-owned lithium extraction complex in the southern zone of the Uyuni Salt Flat, Bolivia, on July 10, 2019. Image Credits: PABLO COZZAGLIO/AFP / Getty Images
The Human cost alone, including child slave labor, in just the mining, also cost hundreds of lives per year, but that cost is both not counted and rarely reported.
Once the ore has be refined down to component metals, it is then shipped to the battery manufacturer, most likely China, by diesel burning ships, again traveling thousands of miles. The battery is assembled using power supplied by Coal (China), shipped to a warehouse.. prepared for shipment.. shipped to a port then shipped to the receiving country, where it is offloaded, shipped again to a distribution node, shipped out across the country for battery assembly into the BEVs themselves.. all using petroleum fuels to accomplish these task.
The car, the battery is installed in, is made from metals and plastics, all either made with petroleum, either as a fuel or as a synthetic, so the BEV is responsible for hundreds, if not thousands of tons of carbon, before it drives 1 mile.
You bought that BEV and you think they are going to be the only car on the market to save the planet.. well not so much.
According to a new report, from the Global Cabal World Economic Forum’s own study found, that to hit their Net Zero project goal of 2 billion BEVs by 2050, the Earth does not have enough lithium to make all of those batteries. In fact, it is projected, by 2025, we will start experiencing world wide shortages of lithium according to the US Geological Survey.
“There simply isn’t going to be enough lithium on the face of the planet, regardless of who expands and who delivers, it just won’t be there,” Lake Resources Chairman Stuart Crow told the Financial Times. “Car makers are starting to sense that maybe the battery makers aren’t going to be able to deliver.”
The study also found that, even if we hit the 2 billion BEV mark, the effect on “Climate Change” will be almost zero and may well be negative, based on the extreme amount of energy required to bring a BEV to market. Take a minute and think about that, really think about it. Why are governments pushing a vehicle supposedly to fight Climate Change when they KNOW it will not. (By the way looking deeper into the study they predicted BEVs will only be used to go a maximum of 37 miles per day) why, because the power grid will not allow you to fully charge the BEV so it is limited in its use. Do you see any real projects to overhaul our grid to increase compacities? No.. why not? Maybe because you might drive more than their allowed 37 miles per day. Wait until you get a look at your future called C40 Cities. C40 cities your future No travel, no meat and you own nothing but you’re gonna luv it.
One of the solutions is to reinvent the battery but no reasonable, cost effective method has been found to date.
Another, is to recycle the battery and try to recover the rare earths and lithium used, but that too is energy expensive and creates, not only more carbon from energy expenditure, but additional waste that many times end up in landfills. Add to this, the recycling of these batteries creates a substantial risk of fire and explosion and the risk of exposure to employees because of the rare earth heavy metals in the battery itself, makes this an expensive process to pursue.
Cobalt is a big health risk to those - including children - that mine it. Image: Amnesty International
The dirty secret of electric vehicles
The “thing” no one talks about and if they do its always, “It doesn’t really happen”, is the cost in human lives, from 3rd world countries, is mind blowing, but we need our Iphone and now our BEVs right? We got to save the world from ourselves and all that.
Exactly how you can ignore the human toll, but care so much about a one inch rise in sea levels in the last 100 years or the next 100 years is beyond me, the fact that almost every millionaire Climate huckster, is buying beachfront property, like the sea was never going to rise, should tell you something, but somehow it never does.
Climate Change is real… and it is natural. The Earth has been warmer and colder then today and CO2 has been both higher and lower then today and you know what, mammals did just fine, in fact Climate Change helped Mammals rise over the reptiles, so in my view, it has helped humanity.
We will adapt as the Earth warms as we are coming out of the Lia Event and this warming, will then be followed by another cooling event. It has been going on for Millions of years and will continue for Millions more, long after “Man” has disappeared from this 3rd Rock from the Sun.
Evolution of temperatures in the postglacial period, after the Last Glacial Maximum, showing very low temperatures for the most part of the Younger Dryas, rapidly rising afterwards to reach the level of the warm Holocene, based on Greenland ice cores.
Global average temperatures show that the Little Ice Age was not a distinct planet-wide period but a regional phenomenon occurring near the end of a long temperature decline that preceded recent global warming.
Rather they call it Global Cooling, Global Warming, Anthropogenic Global Warming, Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming or the newer more popular catch-all “Climate Change” the earth will go on, basing our decisions of how we live, what we eat and how we travel on something as nebulous as “Climate Change” is just idiotic.