(12-01-2024, 12:33 PM)C_T_Russell Wrote: I hear people saying that EVs are bad for the environment because of lithium mining and then they go on to say that it uses child labour.
They are getting mixed up with cobalt which most newer batteries have now moved away from.
Lithium out of salt lakes doesn't seem too damaging to the environment either when you see how they evaporate the brine in the ponds.
The anti EV brigade just keep rolling out the same old FUD. The problem for them is that their negative claims are increasingly being debunked so the move onto the next clickbait garbage. Now that EV ownership is moving into early mainstream uptake beyond early adopters the amount of owners with real positive ownership experiences is reaching some sort of critical mass so the luddite anti EVers are meeting ever greater resistance.