by Selwyn Barron
This is a boneyard near Paris, France with hundreds of electric powered cars. Mind you, these are only cars used by the City of Paris and not personal vehicles. All of these have the same issue — the battery storage cells have given out and need to be replaced. Why not just replace them you ask? Well two reasons: First, the battery storage cells cost almost double what the vehicle cost new, and second, no landfill or disposals will allow the batteries to be disposed of there. So these green fairy tale electric cars are all sitting in vacant lots while their batteries drain toxins into the ground.
And on the same subject in the same country–
https://www.iceagenow.info/why-this-frenchman-regrets-buying-an-electric-car/
Yes there is a need for Lithium battery recycling facilities, but no one is going to invest in such a facility until there is a reasonable supply of lithium batteries for it to recycle.
Your comment about how the “batteries drain toxins into the ground” is deceitful and incorrect. Why can’t you be totally honest for a change? Lithium batteries are a dry batteries there is nothing to “drain” out!
It’s like that physics chap that was on the radio the other week saying that the national grid and current house wiring was woefully inadequate to charge an increase in electric vehicles, just absolute nonsense!
By the way I should have added that there currently are such lithium battery recycling facilities already in existence and technology has improved a great deal in this field.
https://phys.org/news/2019-12-lithium-recycled.html
Meanwhile the batteries are fine in the worn out cars in storage until the demand for lithium reaches the point where it becomes very profitable to recycle.
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“by Selwyn Barron” I am not the author of this article – I forwarded it by email for which I don’t expect acknowledgement.
Sincerely,
Selwyn Barron.
But you do agree with what he says otherwise you wouldn’t have posted it.
Please note, this photo, and the anti-electric vehicle narrative that came with it, does not show what you think it shows.
These are cars from a rideshare company that failed. Those in working order have been sold, the ones that are not in working order have had their batteries removed.
https://factcheck.afp.com/electric-cars-france-were-not-discarded-due-faulty-technology?fbclid=IwAR2WB9gUDe5fNKGd-MPiYLjVi_nzn1U7VRaQ6Oz6hWMWjPEmMZ3k8hTaPMM