It burns around 1,000 litres of fuel in 12 hours, moving around 250 tons of dirt to remove materials needed to produce ONE Tesla battery.
To make any battery, you have to begin with:
- 12 tonnes of lithium silk
- 15 tons of ore for cobalt
- 3 tons of ore for nickel,
- 12 tonnes of copper ore
And move 250 tons of crust.
For only one battery — which makes any car two to three times heavier than gas cars— approximately:
- 12 kg Lithium
- 30 kg Nickel
- 22 kg Mangan
- 15 kg Cobalt
- 200 kg of aluminum, steel and plastic
All this for one car… and the Cat burning 1000 liters of fuel on one shift at the mine? That’s not all the emissions. The factory still has to build the car.
Electric cars are laughably far from zero emissions.
Any Congolese child, press-ganged into a short and hard life in a toxic cobalt mine, can tell you that.