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Hybrids combine all the downsides of an ICE car (way more maintenance, destroying the earth) with all the downsided of an EV (solving battery sustainability, re

Hybrids combine all the downsides of an ICE car (way more maintenance, destroying the earth) with all the downsided of an EV (solving battery sustainability, requiring us to embrace renewable energy and move off coal and gas). Most Batteries not currently being recycled is a problem in the same way as most cars on the road still being ICE. Yeah it's an issue, but it's one which has obvious solutions. Your litany of non-sequitors doesn't warrant a response.

lm28469 4y ago
> destroying the earth Again, research about mining, transport, by-product storage, efficiency, &c. When you need XXg of rare earth and each gram requires you to extract a tonne of earth, to filter it with nasty af chemicals and store it in leaky trailing dams. Solution to EV problems are always "you just need to do X", "we don't do it yet but I swear we'll do it later", "it's not technically feasible for now but we're working on it". It's either wishful thinking or complete delusion. The only thing EVs do is put the pollution far away from you, on a global scale it's not much better for the planet, we're just going to consume the next resource until we hit a wall and realise all over again that we fucked up once more. And on top of that it perpetuates the hell that modern cities became thanks to personal vehicles But sure it allows tech bros in Silicon Valley to drive $100k teslas with 600+ hp and pat themselves on the back about how much they're doing to save the planet.