re: Economist Predicts Fossil Fuel Vehicles No Longer Sold In 8 Years

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The effect on the environment for producing lithium batteries is absolutely devastating. Leaves a much larger/worse impact than does drilling. It's basically strip-mining

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But if we are looking at the environmental angle, lithium mining is certainly bad, but the total environmental impact of the product is almost always in EV's favor. And by a good bit.

Though obviously where the energy is sourced fluctuates the enviorenmental footprint quite a lot.