It also causes roads to be damaged/destroyed FAR faster due to the vehicales on average weighing significantly more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law

It also simply moves the pollution to places like Africa where the extremely dirty lithium mining is externalized away from wealthy westerners.

Environmental externalization.

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TheTxT 28 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

And gasoline just magically appears at the gas station? Wars over oil are being fought for decades and nothing similar has happened over Lithium yet?

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zahlman 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The lithium mining is surely not causing anywhere near as much pollution as fossil fuel burning. If you think it's actually significant, please show relevant studies and/or analysis.

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bryanlarsen 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Only poorly designed EV's are significantly heavier.

A Tesla 3 and a BMW 3 are about the same weight.

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Der_Einzige 5 hours ago | parent [-]

BMWs are all pigfat today. Compare it to a proper sports car like a Miata.

Most cars are far too heavy and should be made lighter. Only Mazda seems to understand this and that's why the Mazda SUVs/sedans are by far the best driving vehicles in their class.

	▲	skylurk 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		BMW has hardware and software bloat for sure, I hate driving them. But sedans, even the heavy ones, don't really hurt roads much compared to a lorry. As your wikipedia link indicates, any road that is designed for lorry use should be able to take heavy sedans all day and not be worse for wear: > Therefore, the resulting stress difference between truck and car is 15,000 to 1.