Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[sd455dan]

When all de EV people so concerned about childrens future and clean air gonna get concerned bout small children in Africa bein abused to yank rare earth minerals out of cracks in rocks? Saw on Utube how dem kids gonna get dead from de mining.
How come nobody concerned about dem?

Yeah maybe they should Go after the actual "employers" that sanction such activity.
and Maybe they could spare a bit of the 125 Billion in Profits to employ legal age workers in the mining.

“These are some of the biggest companies in the world, with combined profits of $125 billion and there is no excuse that companies aren’t investing some of that profit into ensuring that they can trace where the minerals they are using are coming from,” says Dummett. “Anyone with a smartphone would be appalled to think that children as young as seven carrying out back-breaking work for 12 hours a day could be involved at some point in the making of it.”

Children as young as seven mining cobalt used in smartphones, says Amnesty | Employment | The Guardian

 

[sd455dan]

Elon Musk Interview: 1-on-1 with Sandy Munro - YouTube

This is the first long (48 min) interview I have seen between Sandy Monroe and Elon Musk who both are driving forces for our kids futures.

That was a great video,

Found the comment of switching the system voltage of new vehicles to 48 volts interesting, It makes sense in more than one way.

 

[Grumpycat]

When all de EV people so concerned about childrens future and clean air gonna get concerned bout small children in Africa bein abused to yank rare earth minerals out of cracks in rocks? Saw on Utube how dem kids gonna get dead from de mining.
How come nobody concerned about dem?

Awww!

So what would those children do if they didn't have an opportunity to mine? You pretend like they have an option.

"Rare earth minerals" are not rare. It's just that lunatics have forbidden mining and processing in the USA no matter how clean we can do it. We have plenty, just not allowed to use. Globalists want to give this industry to others so as to make us dependent. They have succeeded.

 

[Grumpycat]

Found the comment of switching the system voltage of new vehicles to 48 volts interesting, It makes sense in more than one way.

42V has been coming "Real Soon Now" for over 30 years. While bean counters say "it makes sense" the fact of the matter is headlights, brake lights, window lifts, etc, just doesn’t really matter.

Some say, "look at all the electronics!" But they don’t understand most modern digital electronics run off 3.3V.

Electrical safety code changes when voltages exceed 50. Hence, the automotive specification was to adopt 42V which would satay under 50V even when charging.

 

[cqaigy2]

When all de EV people so concerned about childrens future and clean air gonna get concerned bout small children in Africa bein abused to yank rare earth minerals out of cracks in rocks? Saw on Utube how dem kids gonna get dead from de mining.
How come nobody concerned about dem?

Why pick on the EV people, you use things in your life that have similar consequences. Or maybe i should say, don't just pick on the EV people.

 

[sd455dan]

For those watching the Super bowl game today,

Rumor is there will also be a few ads for New electric vehicles.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Vietnam'''s Vinfast gets permit to test self-driving vehicles in California | Reuters

Glad to see GM's efforts in Australia being purchased and carried forward. I did not know about full self driving efforts.

 

[sd455dan]

Sandy Munro takes a ride with a Beta tester of a Model S with FSD 8.1

Sandy's Reaction to Tesla FSD Beta 8.1 - YouTube

getting Closer

 

[txdon]

The ‘battery fairy’ and other delusions.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...d_vehicles_with_electric_cars_and_trucks.html
"Studies detailing the carbon emissions necessary to manufacture an electric vehicle reveal that on a net basis, there are more emissions for vehicle bought and used for its expected lifetime, than would be generated by buying and using a conventional gasoline-powered vehicle."

Have these studies been purged from the internet?

 

[Grumpycat]

The ‘battery fairy’ and other delusions.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...d_vehicles_with_electric_cars_and_trucks.html
"Studies detailing the carbon emissions necessary to manufacture an electric vehicle reveal that on a net basis, there are more emissions for vehicle bought and used for its expected lifetime, than would be generated by buying and using a conventional gasoline-powered vehicle."

Have these studies been purged from the internet?

You cite one of many lightweight articles which only cites other lightweight articles and choice quotes such as the one you picked.

Lithium is scarce only because governments have made it so.

Poor Llama farmers are not getting all the water they want because someone found a more valuable use. Would you rather have a car or a llama? Drat that pesky capitalism and Adam Smith's "invisible hand".

Eco-Nazis threw mud on the wall to see it if stuck, and found they could stoke fears of CO2. Found they could misguide and spin CO2 interchangeably with "carbon". You know the speaker is ignorant when the two are used interchangeably. And quite frankly carbon and CO2 are essential for life on Earth. The more the better.