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>IVL The Swedish Environment Institute has, on behalf of the Swedish Transport Administration and the Swedish Energy Agency, investigated the climate impact of lithium-ion batteries from a life-cycle perspective.

This is Sweden, the country that has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2050.

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This is fake news. I actually read the study, and it's not even close to supporting what the author wrote.

Tesla has pledged that the Gigafactory would be net zero: https://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/teslas-gigafacto...

If this is accurate and comes to pass, then assuming like the Swedes did that the batteries would have 50% fossil fuel sources for production wouldn't apply.

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1105404_tesla-gigafactor...

Last I read, no panels.

It's not even a third complete, I think it's a little premature to be complaining about the lack of solar panels.

https://i0.wp.com/electrek.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/gigaf...

https://electrek.co/2016/07/24/tesla-gigafactory-picture-sho...

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