Alan B said:
It is surprising that Telsa is moving to rare earth magnets, this is not good for mass production or green manufacturing. The only reason is to increase the range slightly, at a considerable cost and reduction in "green value" for a vehicle that is supposed to be green.
The car being something that is green is considered a garbage notion to a lot of people who study this stuff instead of blindly accepting bad media.
Even the extreme-pro-renewables website theconversation in Australia put out an article proving that there are more CO2 emissions from a Tesla than other combustion cars if charged anywhere in Australia other than charging in hydro-electricity based Tasmania.
https://theconversation.com/teslas-in-victoria-arent-greener-than-diesels-40834
And if you take end of life recycling of the car it just gets worse for Tesla.
After much debate and to just make everyone happy, Tesla cars get a subsidy in Australia anyway even if they do emit more co2 than fossil fuel cars when charged off the grid.
So all the radio-active sludge by-product created via the processing of ore for rare earth elements being used in new Model 3 make no difference to the masses who buy these cars thinking they are helping the world, its no different than the Australians who viciously attack a new coal-mine being opened to make viably priced electricity in India, even after the Indian prime minister made a plea that affordable electricity in India would save 2million children from dying each year by lifting them out of extreme poverty.
These people do not care as long as the truth is too complicated to be easily absorbable by their peers.
https://youtu.be/w87LBiXwwdE
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Its the easy absorbability of information that dictates what most people do, the facts for example of those people who refused to buy anything at a Starbucks, and refused to leave, ignored the issue that it was a frequently used as a meeting place of drug dealers/dealing goes past the majority of people because the information complexities are not easily absorbed in the seconds they saw an inequality meme on Facebook that entirely made their decisions on the issue. https://youtu.be/qpWDINXzzDI
Thought this was a good article on Tesla's health.. Folks have to understand that even big companies with huge debt and when the debt issuers are strongly convinced they will never pay it back can cause companies like Tesla to suddenly disappear faster than folks can load up their share-trading app and hit the sell button.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/auto/2018/04/21/tesla-financial-performance-uncertain-future/