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Originally Posted by 8cd03gro
That day will not come. Electric cars are a dumb technology. What happens when you massively increase the demand for electricity in this country? You increase the demand for coal. Oh, great idea, lets swap fossil fuels and just delay our problems. 57% of the electrical energy produced in the US is from burning coal. On top of that, with lithium ion batteries becoming the new "efficient" thing in electric cars, what do you do with all of those batteries when they die like every other lithium-ion battery? Fill landfills with millions of lithium-ion batteries the size of dogs? There's a reason electric cars have been attempted before and failed. They SHOULD fail again, but with the stupidity in this country I wouldn't be surprised if they were extremely successful this time around. Electric cars are NOT the solution to our problem.
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Batteries can be recycled.
And there are many other sources for electricity now, and many many more in the future.