Hopefully they never take over the world, and we can stop this car nonsense. Having over a million extra people not killed by cars would be nice.
What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the World
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#13The lithium may not be that much of a problem if existing aged batteries can have the lithium in them recycled.
Its not the Lithium that is a problem. Its the Colbolt-59 that's next to it. A typical Tesla has about 15 pounds of Colbolt-59. If a small tactical weapon would be used near the location of a single parked Tesla, the Colbolt-59 will transmute to Colbolt-60, the deadlist substance known to earth. 15 pounds of Colbolt-60 is enough to kill 24 million people. Imagine a parking lot of them. 4 tons of it is enough to annihilate all life on earth. These Tesla cars are the biggest extensional threat to human kind. Anyway, have a nice day!
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#14The lithium may not be that much of a problem if existing aged batteries can have the lithium in them recycled.
It was never a problem in the first place. There's more than enough lithium in seawater.
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#15> Drivers will have to shed their attachment to the sound, smell and feel of gas-powered engines.
I for one will not feel the least bit sad when continuous, smooth acceleration becomes the norm, and lurchy, awkward automatic transmissions fade into distant memory.
I'll probably feel slightly nostalgic about the sound and smell of fuel-burning cars someday, but it won't inform my buying choices in the slightest.
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#16Battery manufacturing is hard. Everyone was really impressed by that "record-breaking" installation Tesla made in South Australia, but that 100 MWh installation is really less than 2000 cars, and Tesla needs to build five times that much per month to keep up with demand. I think people focus on lithium because it's in the name, but lithium access is nowhere near the hardest problem facing battery manufacturers (and correspondingly it's a small percentage of the cost).
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#17The lithium may not be that much of a problem if existing aged batteries can have the lithium in them recycled.
Its not the Lithium that is a problem. Its the Colbolt-59 that's next to it. A typical Tesla has about 15 pounds of Colbolt-59. If a small tactical weapon would be used near the location of a single parked Tesla, the Colbolt-59 will transmute to Colbolt-60, the deadlist substance known to earth. 15 pounds of Colbolt-60 is enough to kill 24 million people. Imagine a parking lot of them. 4 tons of it is enough to annih…
>If a small tactical weapon would be used near the location of a single parked Tesla, the Colbolt-59 will transmute to Colbolt-60.
Source?
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#18The lithium may not be that much of a problem if existing aged batteries can have the lithium in them recycled.
Its not the Lithium that is a problem. Its the Colbolt-59 that's next to it. A typical Tesla has about 15 pounds of Colbolt-59. If a small tactical weapon would be used near the location of a single parked Tesla, the Colbolt-59 will transmute to Colbolt-60, the deadlist substance known to earth. 15 pounds of Colbolt-60 is enough to kill 24 million people. Imagine a parking lot of them. 4 tons of it is enough to annih…
It's cobalt. Also, my physics is rusty but transmuting an isotope should involve a nuclear reaction.
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#19Hopefully they never take over the world, and we can stop this car nonsense. Having over a million extra people not killed by cars would be nice.
But how would you move around? Public transportation cannot reach everywhere. I would just stop seeing my family without having a car.
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#20> Drivers will have to shed their attachment to the sound, smell and feel of gas-powered engines. I for one will not feel the least bit sad when continuous, smooth acceleration becomes the norm, and lurchy, awkward automatic transmissions fade into distant memory. I'll probably feel slightly nostalgic about the sound and smell of fuel-burning cars someday, but it won't inform my buying choices in the slightest.
There are transmissions other than automatic. And I agree, they’re better if you know what you’re doing.
But modern high-end automatics are in fact smoother than most humans. Racecar drivers might be smoother still but even they use flappypadle automatic sequential gearboxes at the very top end of racing because even the best trained humans are just too slow.
Curiously, racing electric cars use gearboxes too.