Posted by Jinna on May 08, 2018; 12:47pm
URL: https://www.es-forum.com/Why-the-iPad-Has-to-be-Made-in-China-tp4024307p4032306.html

If one iPad  with its toxic heavy metals and chemicals produce 285 times its own weight in greenhouse gas emissions, can you imagine for one single ELECTRIC CAR and its HUGE battery?

It's a blatant joke that governments are now promoting ELECTRIC CARS and taking off petrol engines.

First, where does electricity come from?
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3

Electricity is mostly generated by fossil fuels. It's a joke that electric cars are cleaner.

If most electricity came from renewable sources, that could be still a topic to consider...
But we'll still need loads of fossil fuels to produce electricity.

And more will be needed: as when you transform oil fuel to electrical power to transform it to mechanical power (to run a car), you 'lose' energy in the transformationS.

Much smarter is to only use one transformation, from fossil to mechanical directly!

The same lie and joke repeated zillions of times...Who knows that becomes truth?!!

If an iPad needs 285 times of its own weight in greenhouse gas emissions, a single electric car should be an ecological catastrophe on its own.

We are already concerned about using all our precious minerals / metals in cell phones.
Electric cars are huge compared to phones. Just imagine the size of the problem.

What do do with car batteries?


Cell phone recycling is also a joke.

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/mar/01/samsung-greenpeace-what-you-need-to-know-e-waste-smartphones-recycling

90% of e-waste is dumped according to UN.

I hope electric cars will go not go into the e-waste statistics...