Yes it is too true. On the one hand the earth could support even more people…perhaps even a lot more people. But by the time that phrase gets off the tongue the reality sets in that most people on this planet arent ever going to change substantivley to be mindful, aware, or even care. Poor and/or uninformed uncaring people in chile are going to keep burning green wood. The skads of poor people in Africa and India and China are going to keep burning their daily rubbish in the yard consisting of plastic and other toxic substances. People in ecuador any many other places are going to keep burning tires to protest whatever thing they are unhappy about. They will keep torching stores releasing toxic gases into the enviornment.
Stupid kids will blow up batteries in fires for fun…
It just goes on and on
Industry and Military will keep billowing toxic smoke into the sky because of X or Y excuse…often justified by “it’s so we can give all these people what they need…”
How can the above and all the other problems that just the existing 8 billion humans cause be stopped? These behaviours and so many more that it is impossible to list are real heavy hitters that are clubbing the environment of earth to death.
There are only 0.5 million buses sold each year compared to 60 or 100 million cars and 18 or 20 million trucks (this is all from memory but you can google and check if you like). Therefore, buses really are a very small amount of total climate change and pollution.
Believe or not, China is actually the world leader on electric buses by far. Chile and Europe are also doing well and both will likely be selling more electric buses than conventional buses in about 2 years.
The rest of the world will eventually follow.
Africa and India, and South-East Asia, and Latin America, will eventually go electric because they don´t have strong domestic vehicle production, so once China, South Korea, Europe and US have gone electric that´s nearly all the production so the other regions will have to buy what´s available. Japan is the only major vehicle production country that isn´t moving quickly to electric.
An article about the problem of expended lithium based EV batteries. It is saying that less than 5% are recycled and recycling has big risks. A lot of batteries will be decommisioned come 2030 with the issue becoming even more serious.
bad news for even midterm EV batteries. Not enough lithium/cobalt in the world to support EV batteries and the 10 year replacement requirements (this thread already discussed the disposal issues, but not the lack of EV minerals to support a global solution as EV is marketed.
Conclusion is world will have to scrap the EV battery idea and find a power source option that is not so mineral intensive
New-Yorkers who can’t be bothered to cook, or even go to a restaurant + the internet-driven “Gig Economy” + third-world attitudes to electrical safety = unforseen “collateral damage” caused by unassimilated technological innovation.
Well stick a fork in the EV biz…they going the way of the flintstones. No more killing the earth with EV battery waste and lithium fires that burn for days while being gimped for range and ball&chained to distributed specialized chargers.
Maybe a bit more plausible than water-powered vehicles?
Thus, quietly but surely, Toyota has been developing an alternative EV battery technology: namely, advanced solid-state batteries powerful enough and with sufficient capacity to power the next generation of electric cars. Last month, Toyota issued a press release announcing that “Toyota has struck a deal with fellow Japanese company Idemitsu Kosan to mass produce ultra-high-range EVs with solid-state batteries”.
Solid state batteries would reduce western manufacturers’ dependence not just on lithium but also on graphite, for which China is the dominant supplier. But even if the claims about next-generation solid-state batteries prove to be illusory, there is another significant technology that Toyota is working on: ammonia-fuel engines. This technology is the product of a collaboration with the Chinese state-owned GAC Group.
