Absolutely. Not arguing against government investment. Arguing that the battery money grab was most likely full of false dreams/promises, corruption, and inefficiencies. I wonder how many of those companies were truly viable, and how many just had people that could work the politics and had access too loads of cash. The environmental lobbyists campaigned for batteries, the government bought in for the votes and wasted a shit ton of money. After that HUGE investment, how much closer are we to awesome batteries than we were before? I'm pretty sure the same thing happened in the other green sectors of wind and solar. Not against those techs. Against how the government spent the money. HUGE waste. Also, how much of the car subsidies is going towards research? They are just off setting the high cost of ownership, again, to buy votes. Sure, the car companies are taking those profits and investing in new tech research, but in the end, they are the big winners when they develop it. They aren't going to pay the subsidies back. It's the Dems making the rich richer!
Unless the recyclers are paying for the batteries, they won't make it to the facility. We have to pay to dispose of electronics safely, so they end up in landfills. And even when we pay to have them taken care of properly, they are still shipped overseas and end up in landfills. I refer you to the CFL again. "$20 for a light bulb?!" "Yes, but it will last for 20 years!" "And then I throw it away?" "NO!! You'll destroy your drinking water. You'll have to treat it like a hazardous material and pay to have to properly disposed of." No one does that, and those things last maybe 10% longer than an incandescent. Remember when the electric company just sent them to you and billed you for them? Cause that's just how awesome and foolproof the whole thing was!
I don't trust any of those fuckers. They are raking in cash like it's water in the name of saving the planet and I don't believe any of them are. Yet. It could happen in the future, but we aren't even close. WAY too early to be trying to do this on a mass scale. Cause everyone shipping their batteries to Sweden for 80% return is totally feasible. What's the last 20% doing and where's it going? No one asks. Can't knock EVs! It's saving the planet from fossil fuels!! Well, so does nuclear.