This is a remarkable graph.
You might have heard that "EV sales are slumping", "people are starting to avoid EVs", etc.
That's not what's happening.
What's happening is "Tesla is cratering so hard that it's skewing the aggregate market data."
Or, put differently, "Tesla is failing harder than the entire rest of the market is succeeding, combined."
1. My garage is on the opposite side of my house from my electrical panel.
2. My electrical panel is full.
3. Installing a car charger would involve upgrading the feed from the street to support the extra 50A circuit.
4. If you found a qualified, licensed electrician to do that job for $700 including the cost of the charger, please give me his name, because he's the cheapest electrician I've ever heard of.
@jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye When I do road trips I do straight through trips. (half of my annual mileage is my summer beach trip, and I usually do it in a single drive with a 10 minute gas break.
530 miles in about 6 hours. Can't do that in an electric.
@lyda @jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye I wonder what it would take to put EV chargers on the ferries. That would at least be a good use of time.
You should read some articles on lithium mining and it's impacts on the environment before you declare EV's "clean energy"
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Strip-mining is every bit as bad as oil at destroying the planet...
@ShredderFeeder @jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye a few things.
First, most lithium isn't strip mined.
Second, we "mined" 100,000 tons of lithium in 2023. We "mined" 5,000,000,000 tons of oil in 2023 (at least).
Third, batteries can (and are) recycled. It's likely that by the 2060s very little lithium will need to be mined.
Fourth, EVs are starting to come out with sodium batteries.
Lastly, charging on ferries isn't ideal until they use wind power (and regen from propellers).
@lyda @jannem @CosmicTraveler @mhoye Sodium batteries are a step in the right direction.. Chinese have been building them for a while now, but Americans like mining shit.
I'm just glad that I'll be long dead before my Mustang becomes illegal.
There's no replacement for displacement.
@lyda As of 2017, most lithium comes from australia, where it is in fact strip-mined. The brine-pools that it's extracted from in chile (now the #2 producer) does horrible things to an area's water table. Same goes for Sodium-ION batteries. Takes thousands of cubic hectares of water to generate a usable amount of salt.
There is NO element that can be extracted from the earth that doesn't damage it.
We need Cold-Fusion, Anti-Matter, or another produce-on-demand power-source before we stop destroying the planet... and the mass-production of both Cold Fusion (Production of heavy-water) and Matter/Anti-Matter reaction (production of anti-matter itself) are still decades off because we're wasting all of our focus on stupid batteries that are just as bad for the environment as the oil they replace.
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