This is a great video and as an automotive enthusiast, I truly appreciate your efforts in making this video.<br><br>Jeremy Clarkson pointed out several times whenever presenting the Toyota Prius just how damaging the battery manufacturing of it is. It starts in West Canada, goes on trucks to the east cost to be loaded on a large ship that burns bunker oil (The dirtiest oil available) to Norway where it is refined and turned into foam and then transferred from there to China where it is mixed with Lithium and cobalt to make batteries for the car which then get sent to Japan where they are put in the batteries of the Prius which is then built and shipped to the US. You can only imagine just how much pollution was done by burning bunker oil for a Prius. Now imagine that with a bigger battery with Teslas and full EVs.<br><br>Next we need to look EVs from Louis Rossmann's Right To Repair perspective. The current batteries are good for about 8 to 9 years. You buy an EV for $40,000, drive it till it's warranty is about to expire and sell it for $10,000. The person buys that used EV drives about for a few months before the battery goes flat. You go to the service center only to find out that battery costs <b>$14,000 NEW!</b> To make matters worse, many Teslas have top of range battery from the factory but lock out the extra range and offer that range behind a paywall OR since that model is now 10 years old, the manufacturer has basically stopped manufacturing the battery for that car. Basically, there is no way a used car market can exist when spares for an EV cost more than the actual car itself and the lifetime of a car on the road reduces from 50 to just 10 years. Just think of the e-waste all these EVs will generate when they get taken off the road.<br><br>Finally to drive home the point, Volvo made a research and put out evidence that EVs are just 8% more efficient than ICE counterparts if you consider their manufacturing and recycling. I think a part 2 of this video should be on your cards now. :),(reply>), @acekkkkkk The vast majority of EV's can't even do 200km regularly in the real world. With regular use capacity drops significantly especially if you recharge often, especially faster, or when you drive it near depletion regularly and drive conservatively. If you want that magical 20% over the span of a decade you'd need to slow charge your car, not let the battery go below 60%, not let it got higher than 80% and drive to avoid peaks in energy demands. Which realistically means you need to nurse the battery AND have just an effective range of some 50km under ideal conditions using common range found on modern EV's.<br>Even at ideal storage voltage and non-use of the battery you'd expected to get about a 5% reduction in efficiency per year.,(reply>), @acekkkkkk A coworker won an EV for a year in a promotion. It was an eGolf (iirc, def a VW, tho). He lived far enough away from work (about 80km) that it could not be fully charged from the wall socket overnight. This meant that he spent half an hour a day at a fast charge station just so he could go to work.<br>Over the year he had it, its max range (according to the dash readout) fell from 260km on the day he got it to 209km when he returned it, a ~20% loss in one year.<br>He said the experience was enough to put him off EV's forever.,(reply>), Thats bullshit. You will loose like 20% battery in 8-10 years. Thats nowhere near flat! I mean cmon, you can only do 300km instead of 400? No Problem at all,(reply>), Maybe the battery problem could be mitigated with industry standardized hookups akin to how USB became a standard that made so many things more affordable. Of course, that is likely to be developed about 10 years down the road once more competition arises so the current generation of vehicles is likely to continue to be disappointing in the long-term effects.<br><br>The actual pollution from maritime shipping is much smaller than the pollution likely to arise from power generation or mining so I don't consider that a serious argument.,(reply>), Nice to see another rossman fan in the wild 🤣