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It's true that manufacturing lithium batteries produces carbon dioxide in fact a long range BEV produces about 68% more than producing an ICE vehicle.... but within 18 months of use the BEV breaks even. Also lithium ion batteries are recycled which is never counted in well to wheels calculation. On average an ICE car would need to get 135mpg to remain competitive on emissions. If you are concerned with reducing emissions the number 1 thing you can do is eat less animal agriculture produce.That video actually had an impact on me and made me question my choice. I had not thought about the part about Lithium batteries.
My understanding of this is that that the carbon footprint associated with lithium battery production is from the production of the energy used to evaporate the solvents that are used to deposit the active parts of the electrodes on the collectors. Tesla clearly has a couple of things up its sleeve with respect to batteries which it will be revealing at the upcoming Battery Day. I'm pretty sure that one of those things in the dry electrode manufacturing technology which it got when it bought Maxwell. Thus I think the CO2 footprint of battery manufacture is going to go way down.It's true that manufacturing lithium batteries produces carbon dioxide...