katsbro069 t1_ja1fhbp wrote on February 26, 2023 at 3:04 AM

Wait they are advancing??? /s

I thought they would use the "child labor" lithium forever. that parrot squawking that was used as a fact by ppl who didn't care about those kids anyway.

Technology, who knew....

Well the logical knew.

Parrots, not so much.

Steakosaurus t1_ja1ndsq wrote on February 26, 2023 at 4:12 AM

If you read the article, you'd see that the new chemistry is LFP - Lithium Iron Phosphate - which has been around forever and is still a lithium ion based chemistry.

Adventurous_Oil_5805 t1_ja1rgth wrote on February 26, 2023 at 4:50 AM

That “child labor” comment probably refers to cobalt. The oil industry uses more cobalt than the EV industry, and while the EV industry is working to end child laborers, the oil industry never did. Plus, cobalt comes from copper mines so those mines would exist without battery electric vehicles.

So your pro fossil fuel talking points are out of date. By a good 5 years now. Why don’t you go to them and see what they want you to say nowadays.