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Lithium Batteries' Dirty Secret: Manufacturing Them Leaves Massive Carbon Footprint
Once in operation, electric cars certainly reduce your carbon footprint, but making the lithium-ion batteries could emit 74% more CO2 than for conventional cars.
Bloomberg
OCT 16, 2018
https://www.industryweek.com/techno...acturing-them-leaves-massive-carbon-footprint
The interesting thing about that article is it still comes back to fossil fuel being the problem. The batteries being manufactured in countries that rely on coal to power the factories. It's not the batteries themselves.
What can the US do? Well look no further than Tesla's Gigafactories Which use 100% renewable power
https://euanmearns.com/powering-the-tesla-gigafactory/#:~:text=(The Gigafactory) is an all,array and solar ground installations.
https://www.tesla.com/gigafactory#:~:text=Once complete, Tesla expects the,and installation is already underway.