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minus-squarePersnickityPenguin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-211 months agoA hybrid does not use 5x less materials than an EV unless your car weighs 1/5th that of a normal car. My bolt weighs 3600 lbs. Including battery. Does your car weigh 720 pounds?
minus-squareSaneless@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months ago“critical materials” Could mean lithium or cobalt or something that’s harder to come by than steel or aluminum
minus-squareProweruser@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoThat’s the problem when people just invent words. Nobody knows what they mean. Lithium is not hard to come by. Cobalt is used sparingly in batteries or not at all. You know where it’s used a lot? Gasoline desulfurization. So your hybrid uses up a ton of Cobalt.
A hybrid does not use 5x less materials than an EV unless your car weighs 1/5th that of a normal car.
My bolt weighs 3600 lbs. Including battery. Does your car weigh 720 pounds?
“critical materials”
Could mean lithium or cobalt or something that’s harder to come by than steel or aluminum
That’s the problem when people just invent words. Nobody knows what they mean.
Lithium is not hard to come by.
Cobalt is used sparingly in batteries or not at all. You know where it’s used a lot? Gasoline desulfurization. So your hybrid uses up a ton of Cobalt.