• ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It has nothing to do with quantity.

    Electric cars have batteries that need cobalt and other stuff that is hard to get which a normal gas car would never need.

    • RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      At the moment they do with the Lithium batteries but better and cheaper batteries are already on the market that have solved that rare minerals problem. Sodium ion batteries have most of the capacity by weight of Lithium type batteries, but they do not require any of the rare minerals, in fact they can be made with minerals that are cheap and abundant in the USA. They are also non-flammable, much safer than lithium.

    • malhelo@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Fossil fuel cars do use cobalt though, significantly less though. But they also need fossil fuels which are hard to come by (in an environmentally friendly way.