golfdave
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Scotland (U.K.)
- Car(s)
- Mk7 Golf GT Estate
Batteries and the electricity to charge them still come from dirty sources. We lack the infrastructure for charging also, Top Gear/Grand Tour covered this.
VW has made a great electric with the ID3 but they won't sell them to us.
Actually over here quite a bit comes from green energy...
BUT the chemicals to make the batteries & the Neodymium magnets in the wind turbines & the nasty chemicals in solar panels...well there's a nice area in deepest China/Mongolia that's a toxic stills area for the waste where they mine these "rare earth" metals...
The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust - BBC Future
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geo:40.637861,109.687972 - Google Maps