UK building Europe's first lithium refinery to power 1m electric cars
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As well as providing batteries for the rising numbers of EVs, the plant expects to cut lithium’s current carbon footprint by 80 per cent.
  • Moskus@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    As much as I’d like to agree with you, the problem with your idea is that on day two after cars were made illegal society would just collapse.

    To make this work, we need to prepare society for life without cars, and then get rid of them. The other way around wouldn’t work.

    • eskimofry@lemmy.ml
      6·
      1 year ago

      on day two after cars were made illegal society would just collapse.

      Society never worked without cars?

      • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        Since the dawn of man, cars have been an integral part of society. I think it was Socrates who said “Why walk when you can drive a 6 cylinder plug in hybrid supercar?” -s

    • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      Why would it collapse? Odviously we would have to improve public transit first. Here in the USA outside of big cities you’re lucky if your town has a local bus route. But the bus and train tech is already here. We wouldn’t have to research, invent, or build new factories. We would just buy it, install, and hire operators.

    • pedz@lemmy.ca
      1·
      1 year ago

      We’ve only been practicing agriculture for like 10 000 to 14 000 years so it’s indeed obvious that without cars everything would collapse. And just as recently as a few hundred years ago, the US and Canada absolutely needed cars to be developed. Before cars, humans have never been able to achieve anything significant.