Good article. Seems like they kind of ignore battery mineral mining effects. I’ll have to read up on what is included in “battery manufacturing”, but it seems like this is saying, for example, lithium just appears at the store for manufacturers to use in manufacturing like ground beef at the grocery store… the carbon footprint isn’t just how much propane I use to cook a burger. You can’t ignore the fact that someone has to raise a cow, butcher it, package it, and transport it to the grocery store first. All that has effects (worth it in my opinion). Similarly, battery ‘pollution’ starts at mineral extraction. If Fracking is bad, so is lithium, cobalt, nickel, aluminum, manganese, graphite, etc., etc. mining. Solar is a good point though, if you power your whole house and car through solar off the grid, that’s gonna be low on carbon (still have mining/manufacturing of solar panels), but 99% of homes even with solar (like mine) are still on the grid and some power comes from/or is traded for power from other sources.
I’m not for or against any of this, just a realist and want to always see the whole picture. I am in a Natural Gas/coal state, which is fine, really I’m just here for the torque.
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