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lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to Fuck Cars@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

We don’t need more cars, more traffic, more congestion, more pollution, more road damage, and more CO2 emissions.

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We don’t need more cars, more traffic, more congestion, more pollution, more road damage, and more CO2 emissions.

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lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to Fuck Cars@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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Attached: 1 image Today, there are around 1.31 billion personal vehicles (cars, trucks, and SUVs) in the world. 🚙 Of those, only about 2% are hybrid or electric. The other 98% are ICE vehicles burning gasoline/petrol. By 2050, it’s estimated we’ll have about 2.21 billion vehicles in the world. That’s a HUGE number, almost 70% greater than today. But how many of those will be electric? Instead of only 2%, it’s expected they will increase to around 31% of the total. That sounds great! 😃 More EVs is a good thing, right? Well, if 31% are EVs in 2050, that means the other 69% will *still* be ICE vehicles burning gas/petrol. So the number of cars and trucks and SUVs burning fossil fuels will go UP from 1.28 billion now to about 1.52 billion by 2050. That’s… not so good. 😠 We don’t *need* more cars, more traffic, more congestion, more pollution, more road damage, and more CO2 emissions. What we need is: ❇️ More bicycles ❇️ More electric bikes ❇️ More pedestrians ❇️ More mass transit ❇️ More light rail NOT MORE CARS!! #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #CO2 #Emissions
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    It’s hard to answer your question entirely right now, but many batteries end up in non-car applications for a few years before they run out of useful life. A car battery with 50% of its original 80kwh is still a LOT of juice.

    https://www.greentecauto.com/product-category/repurposed-batteries https://www.secondlife-evbatteries.com/collections/ev-battery/Module https://evolveelectrics.com/products/tesla-model-s-lithium-ion-battery

    So even before recycling there is a LOT of reuse possible.

    But ultimately when it comes to the recycling process, as grids continue to go carbon-free, the amount of energy used to recycle batteries becomes irrelevant as long as there is an ecological upside.

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      Thank you!

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