Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "How bad is Diesel?" video.

  1. I am an ICE man. I don't have a lot of confidence in either hybrid electric or purely electric cars. Why? 1. Because getting minerals out of the ground, like copper for instance (there is at least 40 times more copper in an electric car than an ICE car), carries it's own problems in mining copper (and nickel and lithium and so on). Namely, acid sulphides. Very potentially polluting around the mine environment and in groundwater and streams leading from the mine. Arsenic is high too. Much more copper will be needed to make electric cars. Petroleum products simply come to a collection point (usually a liquids condenser and separator) from reservoirs kilometres under the ground in a small borehole well. 2. Transmission from the coal fired power station to the car. The majority of power stations are either still coal or natural gas worldwide, to charge your car. Electrical power is lost through the grid transfer, although high current and voltage electricity is less so (why electricity on your street is stepped down by using a transformer on a pole, or you might have noticed this before councils doubled their rates to pay to bury power lines). So electrical cars still pollute the environment badly to manufacture and have carbon emissions when running. Just not where the car is. 3. Lithium batteries can be prone to overheating, catching fire or exploding. ICE vehicles hardly ever catch fire these days.
    1