Or everyone else sorts out the charging network. Either works for me.
There does seem to be a lot of innovation for innovations sake at Tesla. Like putting in a yoke style steering wheel but not actually going the whole hog to make the turning response dynamic. Or moving critical features into the on screen menus.
I'll keep using old car models that don't require child laborers removing several tons of material from the earth to satiate my personal environmental sanctimoniousness.
So no car, then? Gasoline vehicles use cobalt and rare earths too.
If you were actually serious, you'd be driving an EV with LFP batteries and induction motors.
Do you have a source for your claim that cobalt/rare-earths are used in conventional cars to the same extent as electric?
And my point all up is that no new vehicles should be mined/built/purchased, at least while any old reasonably efficient one remains drivable. And that is what I have done. Pulling a bunch of lithium out of the earth isn't better than simply using what we already have made.
Your point about used cars is a good one, but cars are relatively fungible. Almost every purchase of a used car causes a new car to be built & sold.
And have you recanted the statement that ICE cars use cobalt and rare-earths anywhere near as much as electrics do?
> Almost every purchase of a used car causes a new car to be built & sold.
No, the only cause of a new car being built and sold is an individual deciding that a new car is a good choice for them. Them selling their old car is a result of that same decision, not a cause. And that decision comes more and more nowadays from a misguided impression that "my old car is bad for the environment, I must buy a new environmentally friendly one to be a good person".
When you buy a used car, you increase demand, raising prices for used cars. This makes new cars relatively more attractive.
Edit: I see now that it is in fact 1,400 PPM of some intermediary matte, not raw ore. Th matte/ore ratio is not stated. But that matte is nickel/copper rich, and the platinum is in some sense a impurity in the existing ore that would likely be mined for its other metals anyways.
Even still: not all ore is equal. Platinum mining is a heavily industrialized process where machines do the hard labor, cobalt is child labor camps digging.
The latest example is that the physical buttons to change gears on the Cybertruck are located in the ceiling near the rear view mirror.
edit: Downvote me all you like but just look at what for example VW did in the emissions scandal. Not like anyone went to jail for that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
Oh, and execs quite literally did go to prison: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-southkorea-idU....
* there has been some work to get something similar to a class action law suit against VW going but it's hardly the same severity or consumer protection like in the US.