The alternative is gas. 100x more energy dense than lithium and it hasn't been great for the environment to say the least.
https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/02/01/south-america-s-li...
Why is lithium extraction bad for the environment? Any type of resource extraction is harmful to the planet. This is because removing these raw materials can result in soil degradation, water shortages, biodiversity loss, damage to ecosystem functions and an increase in global warming.
But when we think of extraction, we think of fossil fuels like coal and gas. Unfortunately, lithium also falls under the same umbrella, despite paving the way for an electric future.. Lithium can be described as the non-renewable mineral that makes renewable energy possible - often touted as the next oil.
Even first generation Leaf batteries are still being sold for reasonable sums of money so we haven't even reached the stage were we are recycling them in ernest yet.
As lithium batteries degrade they become more unstable and fire prone. I'm sure you're familiar with what happens to your laptop battery as it ages - shorter and shorter life, swelling etc.
And of course, laptop batteries get worked -much- harder and treated to much harsher environments than any EV battery.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/20/tesla-switching-to-lfp-batte...
https://tesla-cdn.thron.com/static/TWPKBV_TSLA_Q3_2021_Quart... (page 7)
Are you trying to argue that using fossil fuels is better for the environment? It’s not clear if you’re using this opportunity to complain about mining in general or if you’re arguing that we are better off with petrol cars.
By copper mining. Lithium is unnoticeable in comparison.
Lithium is extremely hard to recycle.
50/50, actually.
https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter4/transportat...
Ferrous metals 65%.
2 How old is that graphic?
3 Manners
"Manners" in this forum means providing credible sources to back up your claims. If you have credible sources that contradict Transport Geography, supply them.
1. https://www.metalsupermarkets.com/what-is-a-ferrous-metal/
https://matmatch.com/resources/blog/advanced-high-strength-s...
AHSS is essentially steel at its core but is very hard to move once damaged, unlike 16 or 18 gauge pure stamped steel in an early 70's era car for example, that was superseded by the high strength low alloys (HSLA) in the late 1970's. If you hammer and dolly the older pure steels there will be a 'memory' of the original stamping it will reconform too. The newer HSLA alloys were much less malleable
It is amazing how fast this world has evolved in the last five years.
High strength 'steel' has a low alloying and carbon content to retain formability and weldability, with copper, titanium, vanadium, and niobium added for strengthening purposes. These are complex alloys that replaced the earlier HSLA and are both very hard to work and also to recycle.