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nationalize the fed

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16. Plus the fact that every single lithium battery will fail

Reply to MineralMan (Reply #3)

Sat Aug 29, 2015, 03:22 PM

Aug 2015

one day and need to be replaced and recycled.

The battery pack in a Tesla model S weighs ~1320 pounds. Not something you can load into the back of a pickup and take to the recycling facility.

Here's a theory (that I don't believe yet- but something is going on)

https://teslainvestigation.wordpress.com/2015/06/25/why-elon-musk-and-john-doerr-hate-hydrogen-more-than-anything-on-earth/

Trivia: If not plugged in, a Tesla model S loses ~5 Miles of range every day due to "Vampire Losses" - running the battery coolant and powering the on board electronics.

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500k electric cars by 2020. [View all] lonestarnot Aug 2015 OP

Very good. PatrickforO Aug 2015 #1

The need to step it up this quickly. lonestarnot Aug 2015 #2

Hmm... MineralMan Aug 2015 #3

And the coal to make the electric power. nt Logical Aug 2015 #5

Or oil or nuclear power or whatever. MineralMan Aug 2015 #6

When there is all that solar energy just waiting to be harnessed. lonestarnot Aug 2015 #9

And wind! nt Logical Aug 2015 #10

And wind, of course. But, those big props kill birds, and are MineralMan Aug 2015 #13

Good questions. Another issue charging stations "multiplying like electric bunnies." lonestarnot Aug 2015 #7

Well, since most of these cars are novelties to be owned MineralMan Aug 2015 #12

Lithium Ion Batteries are recyclable Statistical Aug 2015 #15

Plus the fact that every single lithium battery will fail nationalize the fed Aug 2015 #16

Gasoline gets "mined" and shipped tremendous distances too daleo Aug 2015 #17

Plus since lithium is recyclable in time it will be cheaper ... Statistical Aug 2015 #18

Why, yes, it does. MineralMan Aug 2015 #19

And some of them will be self driving Logical Aug 2015 #4

True. Humans not required, except to build them and to manufacture MineralMan Aug 2015 #8

Self driving cars will save thousands of people a year! Good news! nt Logical Aug 2015 #11

See there? There's always an answer, isn't there? MineralMan Aug 2015 #14