eleitl comments on Gasoline cars are now less than 50% of new cars sold globally.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The actual problem is diesel, ship bunker fuel and jet kerosene.

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Well, it is one of the problems. You could say the microplastic from car tires infecting our bloodstream and everything on Earth is another. But there are loads more problems as well.

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[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Some problems cause sudden excess deaths in the billions, others less so.

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[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

We also need a better backbone to support evs. China has massive charging stations, essentially battery stations like gas stations.

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[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 month ago

Notice that grid infra upgrades at that scale can't be done with copper, since we're running into extraction limits there. So the bulk will have to be aluminium.

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