So because one extremely awful company is taking advantage of child labor, ALL electric vehicles are suddenly bad? We wont talk about the fact that these batteries are recyclable (even if nobody is actually recycling them yet), we wont talk about the fact that your car recharges itself as it drives, we wont talk about the fact that even in hybrid vehicles you get more milage per gallon than an average car, we wont talk about the fact that a lot of charging stations get their energy from solar or wind, and we definitely wont talk about the fact that EVs product little to no emissions. The only thing we are gonna talk about is how Tesla is a terrible company (which they actually are), so that means every single EV ever made is somehow also evil.<br><br>Imagine being as braindead as EAG on this subject.,(reply>), @Walmart NIBBA Still stands that other battery technology is progressing, and Ford is leading the way by the fact they have already purchased years worth of production of these new cells for 3 years of their vehicle production.  All while also investing over a billion more into improving the technology.  Shell Oil of all companies in heavily investing into "green" technologies because they know its the future. and they want to own as much of that tech as they can.,(reply>), @John yeah pushing to use mostly cheap lithium battery powered EVs.,(reply>), @Walmart NIBBA China is actually pushing heavily to switching to EV in the next 5 years.  Its why nearly all car companies are pushing really hard to have an EV ready for the market because they know the market in China is 10 times that in the US.,(reply>), @John switching and developing this new tech, as in its not widely used yet. so my comment still stands. And the american EV market is way smaller then the EV market in china which still focuses on mass production, not innovation which means they still use lithium,(reply>), @Walmart NIBBA that is not true actually.  Ford is moving to use a completely different battery technology and will not need Lithium for their cells, something Tesla is actually starting to offer because 1. the batteries are safer, 2. they charge faster and in the last 18 month have doubled in capacity to nearly the same as a Lithium battery.  They just dont have the discharge rate that a Tesla Plaid would need, but plenty for any other model.  <br><br>As Ash said, this technology is sooo young, its dumb to criticize it now.  It is the same as when people with Horse and Buggies said the Automobile was stupid.