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Originally Posted by Fozzie_DeBear
Lots of people also should realize that it may talk a lot more energy to make a high-tech car like a hybrid or Telsa (they just don't appear). So one should consider the pollutants required to make the car and average them over a typical lifespan of a car...
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The battery manufacturing process is pretty dirty, but there are already companies with alternative batteries that aren't nearly as bad to produce, but their life span isn't quite there yet compared to conventional batteries.
The NiMH batteries which have been used on a lot of electric cars already have shown no problems hitting over 200,000 km. Think of how many parts an internal combustion car goes through in that time as well as fluids. Electric cars are as close as you can get to zero maintenance.
I'm not just another hippie spouting this stuff off either, I'm currently driving a gas guzzling V8 sedan (getting my share of the gas before it's gone
) but it's just foolish to deny this as a viable alternative that is much better for the environment.