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Your average EV has six times more mineral content than a petrol or diesel-powered vehicle – and all those metals need to be dug, scraped, blasted, or leached out of the earth. There is massive demand for batteries as countries eye up ambitious zero emissions targets. But what’s the…
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So many "facts". But wrong. Please will you guys do better fact checking.
1. Uses of rare earth metals with steel, copper and aluminium alloys.
2. Recycling of various metals and their side effects. No mention of the energy needed to refine new extracted metals or energy needed to recycle materials (huge).
3.Transport costs of raw materials (and CO2 impact).
That's three to get you started. Come on guys, your researchers could put in a bit more effort.
I wonder how Ryan is doing.
cobalt is used in the steel making process, hey?
Thank God we can run all the batteries in our laptops and mobile phones on fossil fuel.
Every convenience to man has a corresponding cost to nature
…but fossil fuels are worse" offers no data to back up this statement,
All this mining is going to happen, with or without batteries for cars. For all our scientific achievements we need better tech on chemical clean ups on mines. The mining companies should be paying for it. A percentage from their profits should all be used for research on this. Not spending money on shooting and loud bands to scare off birds. Human stupidity and greed over environment health vs I need a job to eat. Did they need to create such pollution or could have they had a safer solution.
All for not, we aren't going to buy those evs
Not much about the future promise of carbon based batteries. How you can avoid near future tech in this video is pretty surprising as they may become a substantially better replacement to lithium.
Agree with lots of things here, but these doc makers twisting and turning story to blame China, why? Why can't these journos report unbias, without blaming one inviual nation? US, UK and Europe explotetion is far worse in the past and still going same trijectory" looking there" poiting finguers to Asian nation, whether it is China or India, has been going far too long.
Such narravies here is well explained by Indian Foreign Minister. "Europe and US problems are the world's problem. But Asian, Africa and other South American problems is thier own. This narraive has to stop…no if and buts! End of the story.
At 15:44 you state that internal combustion engine vehicles dont use any. This is false as refining oil uses cobalt as a catalyst
This winter in Chicago, showed how Lame & stupid EV cars really are. If you had millions of them on the road dying, getting stuck. Hundreds of people could die with no heat, and with blocked highways. And Little emergency help. Poorly thought out.🙄🤔😒
This is an inaccurate presentation and paints an incomplete and negative position. Extremely poor journalism bordering on sensationalist rubbish. LFP battery chemistry’s have surpassed NCM.
EV's are a stroke job. They make more pollution to build. They are heavy , so they go through tires. Which pollutes more. And there's no plan on recycling the toxic batteries. Driving your car for 10-20 years saves way more for the environment. Carbon co2 is recycled in the carbon cycle. And is plant food necessary for all life. Your being fed Lies!
Next video about the true cost of oil extraction using fracking? Not against this type of reporting at all, but it's interesting that the attacks on EV's seem relentless when the popularity is rising.
Green Fascism is not better then brown
I feel you've missed out on a great deal of information, making it not a balanced report.
1. There was no interviews or investigations in China
2. You relied on essentially one subject matter expert.
3. Battery chemistries were glossed over: LiFePo4 wasnt mentioned, nor was Sodium Ion
4. Despite mentioning Australia once, and interviewing two people with Australian accents, absokutely no reference was made to Australia's contribution to the battery supply chain, nor the environmental standards for mining operations that are undertaken in Australia. Spodumene is the rock that yields lithium (not brine) in Australia. Nickel is mined in Australia.
Cobalt is also mined in Australia.
BMW sources its battery minerals from Australian mines to avoid child labour issues with the African mining operation.
5. Battery recycling is being planned by Ford USA as well as other manufacturers.
Overall, I give this a 5/10 because this has missed some important details and focussed solely on the bad.
Anyone that believes the "zero waste" comment is a fool.
sorry but the lighest metal is actually hydrogen, even though its a gas at room temp, its still a metal!
So many reasons to keep driving my gas burning car. Anyone that tells you that CO2 is the problem should go back to basic science.
Batteries are a dead-end. Rare earth minerals are decades from finding sustainable alternatives. There are 2 key problems: using electricity for transportation creates the need for portability. The massive undertaking of trying to go all electric is hard to justify.
“We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.”
― Konstantin Josef Jireček
"Lower climate impact over theor lifetime"
Does that include vehicle accidents? A fossil fueled vehicle can be repaired in a moderate accident, whereas an EV will be totalled in a similar accident.
If the battery is damaged even slightly a fire will destroy the vehicle.
Whats the the total environmental footprint after a vehicle catches fire, burns to the ground, gets towed and disposed of, the toxic chemicals on the ground from the firefighters hosing it down.
…….and if it was on a garage, replacing the home and its contents…….. then building another home?
EV is an expensive feel good.
Concentrate on something real, like hybreds.
So what I hear is these horrible mines have been there for YEARS to fuel the steel industry. Now we blame EV's for them instead of holding the governments of those countries accountable.
It's easy to compare the low wages, lack of ppe and dangers to developed countries but from those peoples perspectives they are the lucky ones. They have a job and earn money where enormous portions of people still live on subsistence farming with no power, running water etc. The problem is WAY bigger than the mines, it's the complete lack of everything else also in those countries.
i dont want to live here anymore, they're trying to tell us 'nothing bad will happen when we mine the sea floor'
cant wait for the future
Our planet is being destroyed at the cost of saving our planet.
I think the climate change time line thingy should include the recycling of the components not just reduce emissions
Great documentary. I want to add, that cobalt is used in oil processing to produce fuel for internal combustion engine cars. So gas cars need cobalt as well as electric.
The term "fossil fuels" is based on a lie. Any chemist will tell you that petroleum couldn't possibly have come from organic material. Also, the myth that life magically created itself is based on absurd and impossible theories.
Go gretter
Using the world's resources for electric vehicles is just as bad as using the world's resources for gasoline vehicles.
Electric Car is a scam
The slavery and the theft of land and destruction continues in the 21st f-ing century. Abhorrent corporate and gov't thugs.
"green Energy" scam will destroy the earth way quicker than gas and oil. Its a shame so many people have fallen for the worlds biggest MLM scam called "green energy". the globalists and politicians get filthy rich off of tax payers. i cant wait for this bullsh*t to finally meet its end. Which is coming pretty soon thank god. everytime i see an idiot post their EV and brag about their rebate thinking that they are so cool i remind them that they are stealing from their neighbors and child slaves helped make his electric go kart LOL
Load of nonsense here.
EVs dont have to be heavy or involve lots of minerals to offer decent translort. Heavy EVs such as you describe are not necessary for everyday transport, they are a manufacture's and consumer choice, effectively a fashion choice.
EVs can be remarkably economic in terms of materials and cost. The battery in my EV contains just 18Kg of lithium spread over 126 cells (definitely not thousands). It contains no cobalt at all. The minerals and chemicals it does contain are Fe, Li, PO, Al, Si and C. They are all commonplace and inexpensive. The next generation may well replace the Li with Na, this is a far less expensive and more abundant material.
My EV can easily get 400km range, enough for my weekly needs (I only charge it once a week). It carries five passengers and their luggage in considerable comfort. Its tare weight is 1720Kg compared to 1700Kg for the ICEV it replaced.
Not only that it cost just $48K, this compared to an almost identically sized and equipped hybrid I also considered buying, which cost $54K (and incidentally weighed over 1800Kg).
In the end the decision to buy the EV was very very easy.
Incidentally the DRC artisinal cobalt mines are being closed and replaced by commercial operations. The traditional miners are being paid out and/or reemployed in the new mines.
Ultimately there is ample cobalt available from commercial mines to meet current demand, it is simply consumer choice to buy cobalt from miners who exploit people. If you want to buy an EV with a 6:15 cobalt battery (the NMC type), fine, but if you have a conscience consider where the cobalt came from.
I'm fully in on Darwinian evolution. It's an observer, not a participant. And… I'm also in for land "exploitation". So… sorry, but there is no other way to sustain current human growth/development without extracting Earth's precious natural resources for useful use.
What they dont mention, is this push for EV's is motivating battery manafacturing companies and car manafacturing companies, to fund and research alternatives to current battery technology. Battery technologies that's also used in our smart watches, tablets, phones, laptops, power tools, TV remotes, etc. Without the sudden increase of demand for batteries we would continue to be dependent on lithium in the longrun and battery manafacturing companies wouldn't spend the time and money to research alternatives to lithium prolonging the harm caused by extraction and processing of lithium.
they mist out how oil companies use cobalt to de-sulphur the fuel that feeds a combustion vehicle.