Technology

59390 readers

2896 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

869

Samsung’s 20-year-life EV battery runs 600 miles on 9-minute charge (interestingengineering.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

330 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 76 points 3 months ago (29 children)

Oh please! I'd love to see Big Oil shrivel and die just like our societies and very planet have under their influence.

[+] [email protected] -12 points 3 months ago (12 children)

Too bad the lithium battery industry is no better. Those places are child labor slave mines and the environmental damage is astronomical..

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

You're missing the big picture. Firstly because they're reducing the cobalt requirements in batteries which will massively help. Also long-term lithium and cobalt are metals, they are found all over the place. Oil and coal are products that require life and as far as we know Earth is the only planet in the solar system to have organics like that.

But we can mine asteroids for materials to build batteries. Long before that we'll have automation to mine the materials on Earth does not requiring human labor. Long-Term this is an improvement it isn't a zero-sum gain at all like you're making out