Well, at least if you buy a Tesla, you’re not supporting big oil companies like Exxon — oh wait…

“Oil major Exxon Mobil (XOM.N) is in talks with Tesla (TSLA.O), Ford Motor (F.N), Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) and other automakers to supply lithium, Bloomberg Law reported on Monday citing people familiar with the matter.”

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/exxon-mobil-talks-with-tesla-ford-supply-lithium-bloomberg-law-2023-07-31/

#oil #EV #EVs #urbanism #cycling #eBikes @fuck_cars #Tesla

  • auth@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Lithium is a big fucking mess no matter who supplies it

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      1 year ago

      There’s efforts to make Li-ion batteries recyclable and there’s also efforts to have sodium-ion batteries as an alternative to Li-ion. I’d also like to see more discussions for nickel–iron batteries for stationary storage for solar/wind buffers.

      All better then burning oil.

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      1 year ago

      I really hope that this has potential to be upscaled enough to be part of the solution even though I doubt it can create enough production capacities in the next 10 years