The Dark Side Of Electric Vehicles
Electric vehicles (EVs) are being pitched as cleaner greener and sustainable, but are they?
What’s clean for the environment may not really be clean. Hidden beneath the shiny exteriors of an EV is the story of blood batteries.
An electric car runs on a battery. But do you know what these batteries are made of? Rare metals like lithium and cobalt. The cobalt gives the battery stability and allows it to operate safely.
Half of the cobalt produced goes into electric cars. We’re talking about four to 30 kilos of cobalt per battery. Seventy percent of the total supply comes from one country. The Congo. The Democratic Republic Of Congo.
This search for cobalt drives human rights violations, extreme poverty, and child labor.
China is one of the villains in this story. Are electric carmakers equally guilty too? WATCH:
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Met the owner of a generator company today. Primary business is for backup generators at home. Said everyones workin at home now, need backups. Said you prob didnt realize this but even in CT last week it was soo hot we had brownouts. Too much ac, not enough electricity. Said he gets calls immediately. Said do you realize we’re already tapped out, we already have black n browouts around the country n we’re shutting down power plants without building new. And the gov is pushing elec cars. They want elec cars everywhere but arent investing in the elec infrastructure to support their green agenda. Said at this rate its all gonna crash. You build the infrastructure first, not the cars. Valid point. Lastly he said he brought portable diesel generators to a car show last week. They were showing off the elec cars but there he was charging them all w diesel generators. Said you just have to laugh at the hypocracy.
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