Flutterby™! : Tech Bllindness and Electric Cars

I have not fact-checked this article, I'm putting it here for later when I write up a presentation on why electric automobiles will not save us, and I can go back and check the numbers and such: amy.zip: You Will Never Own an Electric Car — How Tech Optimism Blinds Us to Obvious Problems

It doesn’t actually matter that we’ll destroy every road in the country trying to drive them. It doesn’t matter that refining Lithium is one of the most environmentally damaging industrial processes on the planet. It doesn’t matter that over its life a BEV is still responsible for at least 30% the emissions of a conventional car and therefore the entire story of a zero emissions car is a fairy tale. It doesn’t even matter that we’ll need to magically find thousands of times more Lithium and start digging it out of the ground 50 times faster.