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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
Not with a battery that big, do you?
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For fuck sakes..
The Tesla batteries are made up of thousands of little batteries just like what you have in your laptop. There are over 500 Million Laptops sold each year with about 10 batters each, or 5,000,000,000 batteries, EVERY YEAR. Like all kinds of other things they contain various dangerous chemicals. Your computer contains various metals such as led which also pollute.
To make a car go, you have to burn the gasoline. About 10% of the energy is used to actually move the car. The other 90% is lost to heat, and 100% of it is turned into gasses that you breath into your lungs.
Electric cars on the other hand are much more efficient, converting much more of the stored energy into motion and much less into heat. They emit no combustion gasses because they don't combust, and the batteries can be recycled.
Are Tesla's 100% green? No of course not - but they and other electric cars are much more green than gas cars.