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Replacing gas-powered vehicles with oversized, road-hogging EVs turns the logic of EVs upside down, David Olive writes.
Replacing gas-powered vehicles with oversized, road-hogging EVs turns the logic of EVs upside down, David Olive writes.
Entrepreneurs are anticipating the coming boom in retired lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles and hoping to create a market for recycled mineral.
Plan includes retooling Ingersoll, Ont. CAMI plant into country's first commercial EV production base
University of Toronto sustainable transport researcher Alexandre Milovanoff said the emissions from materials and manufacturing are a large chunk of a car’s environmental impact. From his calculations, a Tesla Model 3 emits the equivalent of 16.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide over a lifetime of driving in New Zealand. That’s about a third that of the Toyota RAV4, which produces 45.4 tonnes. The overseas assembly of the Tesla’s battery is the biggest contributor, contributing 6.5 tonnes. It takes a lot of energy to mine the lithium, nickel and cobalt metals required, he added. Then the...