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It's in the industry's best interests to encourage re-use and recycling of used EV batteries so, yes, I would expect them to offer an incentive to return them like they do for lead-acid batteries. When we say an EV battery has reached the end of its useful life, that means it only holds about 80% of its original capacity. There's still plenty of life left in the battery, but the decreased capacity will shorten an EV's range. Used EV batteries can be resold for stationary energy storage purposes (e.g. grid-level storage, home energy storage systems) where capacity-to-weight isn't as much of an issue. And when those repurposed batteries reach the end of their lives, they can be recycled, as it's cheaper to recover those raw materials than to mine for new stuff. The industry is not only planning for that, it's counting on it. As far as the poorer communities, like any new technology, the affluent will be the first to adopt, then the middle class, and then the poor. My parents got married in 1945 and it took them several years to scrape up a few hundred bucks to buy a used car so Dad didn't have to hitchhike to work and Mom didn't have to ride the bus to the grocery store. It's not like the advent of EVs is going to eliminate ICEs tomorrow. People who can't afford EVs (like me) will wait until the price makes sense. Having watched and written about this industry for several years, I'm comfortable saying that it'll happen by the end of this decade. The last vehicle I purchased was in 2016; I expect that to be the last ICE I ever buy, for ecological and economic reasons.

1. I wouldn't ditch a decent ICE for an EV - you're right that the carbon footprint of building an EV is worse than continuing to drive an ICE that's already on the road. (Case in point, I have a Corolla with just over 100k on it and I still drive it.) The point is that if you're in the market for a new vehicle anyway, the EV is almost always the better ecological choice, and, over the long haul, the better economic choice too. 2. My article discusses the end-of-life options for EV batteries. They don't just lay around rusting away. (And there are more battery recycling operations today than when the article was published.)

First, the article is from 2019 and the research I cited in there is a couple of years older than that. Batteries have improved in performance and decreased in price since then, and electricity sources have continued to become more green, so everything about the carbon footprint and TCO applies even more today than it did when I wrote it. To your question, an EV has very few moving parts compared to an ICE. so other than replacing the battery after 10-12 years, there's no reason to think it wouldn't go 250k miles or more.

https://www.engineering.com/story/is-my-electric-vehicle-really-green

He's made his philosophy pretty clear: build through the draft and fill holes in free agency. After the draft, he said he's not done - there will be cuts, UDFAs, etc. That's where he'll fill as many holes as possible. Meanwhile, he's obtained a slew of rookies to provide cheap depth for a couple of years, after which they'll hopefully transition into starters.

I'd gladly lose me to find you I'd gladly give up all I got To catch you, I'm gonna run and never stop I'd pay any price just to win you Surrender my good life for bad To find you, I'm gonna drown an unsung man I'd call that a bargain The best I ever had

I had mixed feelings about the Rex hire. On one hand, I knew the Jets' GM was lousy, so I thought a change of scenery might be good, and I was happy to have a HC who had success against Bellchick, even with a crummy QB. On the other hand, I was concerned that he'd dismantle Schwartz's outstanding 4-3 defense and install his own 3-4, which we didn't have the personnel for. When he announced that Schwartz was leaving, my fear came true.

Nah - the most important part is a pic of Milano's GF.

When Bledsoe got injured in 2001, I thought, "Well, that's the end of their season."

She swore that she would be all mine And love me 'til the end But when I whispered in her ear I lost another friend

Never know how much I love you Never know how much I care When you put your arms around me I get a fever that's so hard to bear You give me fever

That's a bit vague. Could you be more specific?

Enough to buy an NFL team.

Lying, cheating, hurting, that's all you seem to do Messing around with every guy in town Putting me down for thinking of someone new

The thing is, you need a partner to trade with, and every GM in the league knows the same fact about this year's draft vs next year's draft, so the standard trade formulas might not apply. It could cost significantly more to get into the teens this year than it would in other years.

If someone delivers a fish to Jimmy, he'd better watch out.

Just wait until she comes back from the beach with an S&M fetish.

I hope so. If he makes a ton of money in endorsements, he might be willing to take a bit less on his contract, leaving more cap space to build a winner. Plus, he's far more personable than Rodgers or Mahomes.

It's better with the full-size LP cover, where the rotation of the band members in the wall photo is more obvious.

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