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At that point, the minute we start taxing scope 3 emissions, every single EV company goes bankrupt. Surprise: mining runs on diesel and natural gas. Now add i
by tenpies 4y ago
At that point, the minute we start taxing scope 3 emissions, every single EV company goes bankrupt.
Surprise: mining runs on diesel and natural gas. Now add in all those emissions to those 30 kg of lithium (and let's not even count all the other extremely environmentally hostile elements needed). Now we ship them accross the world, usually to China, and then from China to somewhere else. Then we burn coal (Germany today) to build that shiny "green" Tesla.
If we were serious about this green thing we would be focused on urban planning, public transit, and retrofitting existing vehicles to be greener. The greenest car is a car you don't have to manufacture.
- bryanlarsen 4y agoIf you tax scope 3 emissions, all industrial processes would be approximately equally affected. So let's say you double the price of lithium, adding a few hundred dollars to the price of an EV, and you double the price of gasoline, adding tens of thousands to the price of operating a gas car. Also keep in mind that both lithium and gasoline are currently supply constrained rather than demand constrained. The price of lithium is currently 8x the cost of production, and the price of oil is currently about 2x the cost of production. Lithium producers will still be quite profitable at current prices if costs double, but oil producers would not be. Taxing scope 3 emissions would help public transit even more than it would help EV's.