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Old Oct 29, 2019, 12:19 pm
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Originally Posted by joshua362
I'd like to see a computation about electric cars with respects to the carbon that must be generated in a power plant somewhere to produce electricity in the first place.
Also would like to see an analysis of the environmental damage of mining the lithium, nickel and other materials needed to make the batteries. I understand it is mined in Canada, refined and put together in China and then installed in electric cars.
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