Interesting Stuff Carbon Analysis of Tesla Batteries - You may or may not like Elon Musk and what he’s doing on X/Tesla/SpaceX, but this post is an analysis of the things that go into a Tesla battery. According to this accounting, a Tesla battery, requires so much fossil fuel to create that it takes 7 years of driving it without filling up on gas to offset the CO2 emissions. Given that these batteries have to be replaced every 10 years, there’s a pretty small impact. What’s worse, the human cost of digging up cobalt is not small and the economic impact of strip mining is not considered.
Bitcoin Tech Talk #374
Bitcoin Tech Talk #374
Bitcoin Tech Talk #374
Interesting Stuff Carbon Analysis of Tesla Batteries - You may or may not like Elon Musk and what he’s doing on X/Tesla/SpaceX, but this post is an analysis of the things that go into a Tesla battery. According to this accounting, a Tesla battery, requires so much fossil fuel to create that it takes 7 years of driving it without filling up on gas to offset the CO2 emissions. Given that these batteries have to be replaced every 10 years, there’s a pretty small impact. What’s worse, the human cost of digging up cobalt is not small and the economic impact of strip mining is not considered.