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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

LITHIUM’S EXPLOSIVE SECRETS

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

While governments around the world are demanding a net zero transition, elected officials are pushing back, notably on the extreme electric vehicle mandates. New data breaks down why many forms of “clean energy” aren’t clean at all and how new technology in the lithium batteries powering these electric vehicles are prone to “thermal runaway”, resulting in battery fires or even explosions, responsible for severe injuries and deaths.

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0:00.0

VW is the main kind of vehicle driver for that economy.

0:04.2

The auto industry is a huge driver for that economy.

0:06.9

And VW and Porsche, they share the similar heads there.

0:11.5

Germany falls way behind the targets as VW and Porsche delay electric

0:16.3

plans. So their 2030 transition, they're blaming a slump in sales. You know, think

0:22.1

about this you have some financial issues in a lot of

0:25.2

countries right now it's coming it's crashing headlong into this mandate for

0:30.0

expensive vehicles so there's a slump there.

0:32.5

There's still conversations about should we fully

0:35.1

banned gasoline engines at this point.

0:37.2

So that's stopping it as well.

0:38.8

It's good that people can actually have a debate on this.

0:41.1

But this pretense that electric is good. on this

0:45.0

but you know this pretense that electric is good was sold to the you know was sold it was

0:47.3

marketed and governments pick this up they subsidize this transition that's

0:51.2

happening right now but let's take a moment for a second. I came

0:53.4

across an article and it really broke down what an electric car is all about.

0:58.1

So it says why driving an electric car isn't green at all? And so I'm going to read this

1:02.2

here just to give it a snapshot. It says,

1:04.2

let's consider a Tesla Model Y battery in this picture. It takes up all the space under the

1:08.1

passenger compartment of the car. To manufacture it has been estimated that you need.

1:13.8

Here it is.

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