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One car has 4,500 cells - bigger cells than most of the vapes. So it really is a matter of scale.
by jdsully 3y ago
One car has 4,500 cells - bigger cells than most of the vapes. So it really is a matter of scale.
- exe34 3y agoHow many cars does one smoke in a year though?
- aftbit 3y agoHopefully zero! Still, if you replace your car (or its battery) every 10 years (pretty long IMO) and smoke one vape a day (yikes), you'll use more cells on your car than your vapes.
- wlesieutre 3y agoI hope someone who replaces their car every 10 years isn’t just sending the old one to the compactor when they’re done with it For one, 10 years is a perfectly good used car for somebody, and for two with large EV battery packs we’d expect some lithium recycling effort Disposable vapes don’t have either of those going for them, batteries go straight in the trash after one charge cycle
- aftbit 3y agoI would hope that too. I imagine that as long as the pack still works, most cars will be sold forward on the used market. If the pack fails (either due to cell death or a crash or whatever), I bet many of them will not be properly recycled, especially from the early days. Once most cars are EVs, recycling will probably get better. Either way, it seems pretty unfair to assume that EV packs will be 100% recycled, while vape packs will be 0% recycled. One could imagine a sort of "core charge" for disposable vapes. Bring the vape back for recycling when you get a new one and get $2 off. This could even be done by law like California CRV for cans and bottles.
- worewood 3y agoDo not give those guys ideas
- lmm 3y agoThe kind of people who can afford to buy EVs buy a new car what, every 3 years? So I guess about 1/3 of a car (or, using the numbers from another comment, about 4000 vapes' worth).
- exe34 3y agoThe car is recycled, while the vapes are sent to the landfill.
- _puk 3y agoI thought a Tesla smoked them all.. I'll show myself out!