At a fucking minimum, new gas vehicles should be hybrids. Compare the MPG of vehicles that have a regular gas and hybrid version. It’s like a 30% reduction in fuel consumption. It doesn’t require a lot of batteries to do this either.
Batteries are already so recycled at an industrial scale that the best “ore” for new lead acid batteries, and lithium ion batteries is literally recycling the batteries. We already have close to a 99% capture rate on lead acid batteries because of industrial recycling and economic incentives. We can do the same with any other type of battery that exists, since the raw materials don’t change at the atomic level, unlike fossile fuels that do, so they can only be burned once.
At a fucking minimum, new gas vehicles should be hybrids. Compare the MPG of vehicles that have a regular gas and hybrid version. It’s like a 30% reduction in fuel consumption. It doesn’t require a lot of batteries to do this either.
Batteries are already so recycled at an industrial scale that the best “ore” for new lead acid batteries, and lithium ion batteries is literally recycling the batteries. We already have close to a 99% capture rate on lead acid batteries because of industrial recycling and economic incentives. We can do the same with any other type of battery that exists, since the raw materials don’t change at the atomic level, unlike fossile fuels that do, so they can only be burned once.
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