Comment on Europe is looking to fight the flood of Chinese electric vehicles. But Europeans love them
bluGill@kbin.social 1 year agoA large port of cars are recycled, so I'm not sure the energy costs are a big deal.
Comment on Europe is looking to fight the flood of Chinese electric vehicles. But Europeans love them
bluGill@kbin.social 1 year agoA large port of cars are recycled, so I'm not sure the energy costs are a big deal.
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 1 year ago
A huge amount of the overall CO2 output of EVs is from the manufacturing process though. It doesn’t matter if you can recycle the aluminum bc you still need to heat it to be recast and we’re not exactly using nuclear or solar to power our forges.
bluGill@kbin.social 1 year ago
Mining is responsible for more CO2 than the rest of manufacturing. We also do use renewables for aluminum - there is enough energy required that energy cost is a big deal and so production is done in areas where energy is cheap - generally meaning geothermo.