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This doesn't make sense. More and more electric is being generated renewably. It's not some far fetched pie in the sky thing either - I fully charge my car using solar cells on the top of my roof. My daily driving is carbon neutral.

Lithium mining isn't great for the environment, but it's certainly much less of a problem than co2 emmisions.

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It takes about four years for your solar panels to pay back the co2 used to produce them.

And the co2 eeded to produce your car's batteries I do not know, but probably several years for that too.

So I doubt your daily driving is carbon neutral just yet.

Four years is a pretty short amount of time.

> Lithium mining isn't great for the environment, but it's certainly much less of a problem than CO2 emissions.

Was it measured?

I've seen thousands of papers regarding extreme climate change from CO2 emissions. I've seen nothing that indicates lithium mining does anything but local damage. Do you have evidence to the contrary?

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