Canada’s most populous provinces are falling behind many U.S. states when it comes to building fast charging stations for electric vehicles, a CBC News analysis shows, raising questions about whether this country’s infrastructure is ready for a transition to cleaner energy.

  •  Auzy   ( @Auzy@beehaw.org ) 
    3•11 months ago

    Why is it people always skip the second part of the article?

    “Electric car batteries aren’t very difficult to get rid of because even if they’ve outlasted the usefulness for an electric car, they’re still worth quite a lot to someone,” says Jake Fisher, Consumer Reports’ senior director of auto testing.

    The one thing advocates against EV’s conveniently ignore, is that batteries are unlikely to go straight to landfill.

    The other thing is that batteries are rapidly evolving and even companies like CATL apparently have a battery which has greatly improved energy density… As time progresses, Electric cars will require fewer batteries In fact, technologies like Lithium Air batteries (under development), offer 5x greater density, and other technologies like Solid State Sulfide are also in development.

    There’s so much work happening here. And it’s already proven on average that they’re already more environmentally friendly (and will soon be substantially more so).