Think EVs are ‘green’?! ‘Typical Tesla EV battery weighs 1,000 pounds & includes 26lbs of lithium, 10lbs of cobalt, 110lbs of nickel, 9lbs of manganese, 55lbs of copper, 44lbs of aluminum, 154lbs of graphite, plus, steel, plastic, & other metals’
Today, a typical EV battery for a Tesla sedan weighs 1,000 pounds and includes these minerals and metals:
- 26 pounds of lithium
- 10 pounds of cobalt
- 110 pounds of nickel
- 9 pounds of manganese
- 55 pounds of copper
- 44 pounds of aluminum
- 154 pounds of graphite
- Plus, steel, plastic, and other metals for the battery casing.
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To manufacture each EV auto battery, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for cobalt, 6,000 pounds of ore for nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, just one Tesla EV battery requires the processing of more than 500,000 pounds of materials somewhere on the planet.
Democrats turn on Tesla despite yearslong EV push – Vandals set Teslas on fire emitting ‘more than 100 substances, including heavy metals, carbon monoxide & hydrogen cyanide’
https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-politics/democrats-turn-tesla-despite-years-long-electric-vehicle-push By Aubrie Spady FOX Business Democratic lawmakers spent years pushing the auto industry into the electric vehicle sector but are now critical of President Donald Trump for promoting Tesla and embracing its founder, Elon Musk. Democrats have been at the forefront of the green energy movement, championing former President Joe Biden’s mandates to require more electric vehicle purchases, […]
Time Is Up: Trumps Cancels Biden’s Massive EV Charger Network Waste
https://lidblog.com/time-is-up-trumps-cancels-bidens-massive-ev-charger-network-waste/ by Warner Todd Huston President Donald Trump has mercifully cancelled Joe Biden’s monumentally wasteful spending on his dreamy dream of a national EV charger network. The Trump administration’s General Services Administration is now finally pulling the plug on Biden’s absurd fantasy. The GSA has now determined that turning the entire fleet of federal automobiles […]
Global EV market faces major shakeup as Tesla recedes & Chinese EV company BYD ascends – BYD claims ‘chargers can in five minutes give its cars enough juice to run for 250 miles’
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/20/2025/global-ev-market-faces-major-shakeup-as-tesla-recedes-byd-ascends By Paige Bruton Asian electrical vehicle optimism is in the ascendent: Chinese EV company BYD’s announcement that its chargers can in five minutes give its cars enough juice to run for 250 miles catapulted its market value to more than $160 billion — far above that of established Western automakers like Ford and GM. US EV darling […]
Buried fortune: US finds $8.4 billion in rare earths sitting in coal ash landfills
https://www.newsbreak.com/share/3860105211741-buried-fortune-us-finds-8-4-billion-in-rare-earths-sitting-in-coal-ash-landfills By Aamir Khollam For years, the United States has depended on imports of rare earth elements, the critical materials found in everything from smartphones to renewable energy technologies. But in a surprising twist, researchers from The University of Texas at Austin have discovered that a massive domestic supply has been sitting right under our noses […]
Trump Is Turning OFF 8,000 EV Chargers at Federal Government Buildings
Car Coach Reports Shut the Power Off and Sell the Fleet! Trump Is turning off all 8,000 EV chargers at all federal government buildings. The word has come down from the General Services Administration (GSA), which is responsible for managing federal buildings, to shut down all of its electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across the […]
Watch: Morano on Fox & Friends on Amazon rainforest being clear-cut for 4-lane highway for UN climate summit: ‘This is beyond parody. If they really cared about the rainforest or the climate, they would have a Zoom conference’
Rachel Campos-Duffy: Executive editor of ClimateDepot.com, Marc Morano joins us. I can’t before my head explodes. I just want to let our viewers understand what is COP30, this summit, explain it. It sounds very 2012, but it’s happening. Tell us what it is. Marc Morano: It’s the 30th UN Climate Summit called the Conference of […]
Watch: Morano on Real America’s Voice TV on Tesla protests: ‘DEMS CAN’T BELIEVE MUSK HAS ALIGNED HIMSELF WITH THE ORANGE ONE’ – ‘THEY ARE ANGRY AT ELON MUSK FOR ALLOWING FREE SPEECH’
DEMS CAN’T BELIEVE MUSK HAS ALIGNED HIMSELF WITH THE ORANGE ONE. THIS IS A COORDINATED ASSAULT ON ELECTRIC VEHICLES; THEY ARE ANGRY AT ELON MUSK FOR ALLOWING FREE SPEECH. @ClimateDepot details for @stinchfield1776 why radicals on the left are vandalizing Tesla dealerships. pic.twitter.com/oOIQVvMhSt — Real America’s Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) March 12, 2025 Broadcast March 12, […]
Trump EPA begins rolling back Biden EV ‘mandate’ in ‘biggest day of deregulation in American history’
https://nypost.com/2025/03/12/us-news/trump-epa-begins-rolling-back-biden-electric-vehicle-mandate-in-biggest-day-of-deregulation-in-american-history/ By Steven Nelson WASHINGTON — President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency began the process Wednesday of rescinding vehicle fuel efficiency standards that Republicans have called a de facto “electric vehicle mandate,” The Post has learned. An administration official said dozens of additional regulatory rollbacks loomed on what would be “the biggest day of deregulation in American history.” The EPA […]
Anger at Elon Musk turns violent with molotov cocktails and gunfire at Tesla lots
https://www.msn.com/en-us/crime/general/ar-AA1AvY9u by Pranshu Verma, Trisha Thadani The woman in the black hoodie walked onto the Tesla car lot prepared to inflict damage. She came with four Smirnoff Ice bottles filled with gasoline, flung them at electric vehicles parked around the dealership and watched as they burned. Over the course of 13 days starting Jan. 29, according […]