100,000 lbs of rare earth metals too make One 1000 pound battery. How much Fossil Fuel was used to make it? EV’s are bull shit! Climate change my ass!
On the flip side that 1,000 pound battery only has approximately 140 pounds of lithium in it. Moving essentially 100,000 lbs of dirt for only 140 lbs with fossil fuels, that EV sitting in your driveway will take over 14 years to offset the carbon footprint of mining and processing.
OH ! WAIT ! Those damned batteries don't last but 8 years, and to recover the 140 lbs of lithium from an expired battery costs more than the battery is worth. Don't forget about the cobalt cathodes, how abundant is cobalt around the world that China doesn't control ? I don't think the government should be in anyone's business when it comes to economics they certainly don't have any logical thought processes that control their spending
Those greenies don't realize they are charging the batteries with mainly fossil fuels, you buy an EV put up a Chineeeeese windmill or Chineeeese solar panels to charge your EV and leave our power grid alone.