[LINK] Standards, please! The third coming of electric vehicles

[David Boxall]

On 22/04/2012 9:08 PM, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 20:14 +1000, David Boxall wrote:
>> On 22/04/2012 1:02 PM, Karl Auer wrote:
>>   >  In what way has history shown EVs to blight lives?!?
>>   >  ...
>> Are you really claiming ignorance of the impact of used batteries sent
>> to the third world for processing? What can be done with them is not
>> necessarily what is done.
>
> For goodness sake. This is not EVs blighting lives, this is not even
> batteries blighting lives, this is commercial greed blighting lives. ...
Your faith in the possible reveals a disposition much sunnier than mine. 
My somewhat darker perspective takes into account probability and risk. 
What can and perhaps should happen is one thing; history shows what 
probably will happen. That tends to be what's most profitable.

After accepting that batteries pose unsustainable risks I lost track a 
bit but, in the 1980s, vehicles that relied on batteries for all their 
power tended to carry about two dozen of the things. If we have 
problems, multiplying them by that much is a strange solution.

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