Technology

59427 readers

3846 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

238

Mercedes-Benz scales back electric ambitions as EV pessimism grows (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

190 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] rimu@piefed.social 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

Toyota say they can make 90 hybrids using the same raw materials as one BEV or six PHEVs, leading to a 37-fold reduction in lifetime carbon emissions .

There's the rub. 'The market' is demanding EVs with massive range-per-charge, leading to huuuge batteries (of which only 10% capacity is used, most of the time) and high prices. It's all a bit crazy.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

90 hybrids using the same raw materials as one BEV or six PHEVs

** for one material, compared to one battery chemistry, for hypothetical vehicles

Did you catch the news a week or so ago about mining and ore processors shutting down because they got ahead of EV demand

Edit: fix auto-correct

[–] JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's because nobody could have foreseen that early adopters are willing to pay a premium price and it's not an unlimited market

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Please tell me you're being sarcastic?

load more comments (2 replies)

load more comments (6 replies)