The Inherent Problems With EVs That No One Wants To Talk About
Without long term solutions, EVs could end up being a fad
Electric vehicles (EVs) are all the rage right now. Between flashy TV ad campaigns and political rhetoric about the technology, everyone is being led to believe that EVs are a silver bullet for our climate problems. EVs are cool. EVs are fresh. EVs are modern. But EVs also have a slew of problems that few people are willing to talk about. The latest car ads don’t tell you about the massive lithium mines popping up in exploited areas of the world. The politicians don’t have answers about what to do with mountains of old car batteries. Tesla doesn’t want you to look up how much it is to replace the battery when it starts to fail. EVs are new and exciting, but they are also raw, and they have a host of issues with few good solutions.
I really want EVs to work but unless these problems are solved they are not going to be a viable solution for the future.
Constant Lithium Mining
Until battery technology changes, the backbone of the entire electric vehicle industry is lithium. Lithium is an unstable, nonrenewable resource that is mined out of the Earth. Lithium mining is dangerous and bad for the planet. Most of the lithium deposits are located in South…
