Electric Cars EXPOSED: The SHOCKING TRUTH about Their Environmental Impact

[@actualfacts1055]

Faster acceleration and being quieter makes EV's less safe.

[@autovant]

True, I can see how that can make sense.

[@actualfacts1055]

Scrap mandates and subsidies if they are so good.

[@autovant]

I think that is a potential solution to the situation.

[@Essob55]

But what about their enviromental inpact? I mean forest land and farmland where they get the minerals.

[@autovant]

The Lithium for EV Batterys are mined in a way the can have an impact on the environment.

[@Essob55]

@@autovant 😝

[@fzrniko]

@@autovant all of these environmental concerns are being addressed in the impact is being reduced exponentially. What we cannot do is stifle progress because the initial and early products and processes are not totally fleshed out. Given time new technologies will far outperform older technologies. It’s a given.

[@fzrniko]

The 8 year time to break even is way way off. It is closer to less than 2 years.

[@autovant]

I guess we will have to wait and see what happens!

[@Dailyroach]

Depends how many km you travel :) and what car you buy . For me compairing the new byd dolphin against our old toyota yaris to drive the 1.5l vvti (very effecient engine) 500,000km I estimate a cost of around $65,000 in fuel / oil and servicing ... so far in the dolphin 7000km has cost us under $100 in electricity (home charging with solar) so its looking very good cost wise .

[@mattmueller5279]

What a nonsense

[@chrisconklin2981]

Your presentation was relatively fair, but a bit dated. You failed to mention that old EV battery packs can be repurposed, and yes, recycled. Here at the start of 2025, the market is changing. China is a major driving factor. Battery technology and cost have improved. China is gearing up to sell quality cars in the $20K range to most of the world's markets. USA EV manufacturing and the general health of manufactures are in a crisis. A good indicator is because China is selling lots of EVs domestically the amount of petroleum imports has begun to declined. Yes, they are building coal fired and nuclear plants, but they are installing more solar that the rest of the world combined. So, all those EVs will be solar powered.

[@autovant]

I appreciate your analysis, I think that solar energy is a great solution to the infrastructure situation, but how many solar panels are needed to support the EVs that are in the market?

[@chrisconklin2981]

@@autovant On adverage it takes ten panels to charge and EV. There are three million EVs in the USA. This means you will need 30 million solar panels. At present there are over 100 million solar panels in the USA. So, it will take one third of existing solar panels to charge the present number of EVs. I would hope that you are familiar with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Energy Consumption (sankey) Flow Charts. Renewable energy is three times more efficient than most other forms of energy use. So, EVs use three times less energy per mile. It is an interesting study to compare the well head to gas tank efficiencies of petroleum vs. Solar Panel electrical flow to EV battery, In other words electrons v hydrocarbons.

[@autovant]

@@chrisconklin2981 hmm, I did not know EVs were that efficient when it comes to energy consumption. Very insightful.

[@chrisconklin2981]

@@autovant Interesting question. Perhaps I will do a deep dive into the comparison between EVs and ICE. but for now: Petroleum: Just for starts, visualize the Gasoline processed.. The pump the well head draw a lot of electricity, the transport of crude to a refinery takes energy, refining takes energy, transport of gasoline to a service station takes energy, and pumping gasoline into your take takes energy. Win burned only one third of the energy of gas is utilized. The rest is waste heat. Renewable Solar: Light strikes the PV panel creating DC electricity, which is inverted to AC electricity. The AC and either stored or directly sent into the power grid. That grid AC is instantly transpherd to an EV charger that conveverts the AC to DC and then AC to the Evthat convers the AC back to DC for the Batteries. Super Chargers convert line AC to DC high voltage and sends itD directly into the battry. All of this takes less than a second with very littl loss of energy.

[@musk-eteer9898]

Tesla or nothing

[@autovant]

Tesla is definitely one of the top EV Brands on the market.