• Farmington Hills officials are fuming over a glut of unsold Cybertrucks being stored in the city.
  • Tesla has been parking the EVs at a shopping center earmarked for major redevelopment.
  • Officials say the electric vehicles violate zoning codes and are warning the property owner.
  • Noite_Etion@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    God the environmental damage caused by making all these batteries, only to be used in a cyber truck and dumped in a car park.

    Remember when Elon was pretending to be saving the environment, well now he isn’t.

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      7 days ago

      EVs were never about saving the environment. It does so much damage making a new EV. If companies wanted to save the environment they would have invested in refurbishing and updating older used cars.

      EDIT: Sad how many ignorant people are down voting this without even attempting to look up the environmental cost of making a brand new car loading with rare earth minerals. While destroying a slightly older car that’s already been built and whose environmental impact has already been dealt with and would best be put to use rather than sit in a junk yard for 50 years.

      Too many corporate boot lickers believing the car companies based on nothing more than “Green” buzz words.

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        The most environmentally friendly thing you can do as a car owner is just keep the oldest car u have alive as long as possible. Cash for lunkers wasn’t about getting people in cleaner cars, it was about subsidizing companies so they could sell more while destroying perfectly good vehicles. This shredded the used car market and we are paying for it now. Literally. If you need to get a new car anyways, sure an ev or hybrid might be the way. But keeping a stinky old diesel running, while it may seem counterintuitive, is the cleaner thing to do. What we wmit driving pails in comparison to the production pollution associated with all these throw away cars.

        • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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          7 days ago

          The most environmentally friendly thing you can do as a car owner is stop being one. Ride a bike. Take Mass Transit. Walk.

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            6 days ago

            Spoken like a true pedestrian. I live in one of the bigger “cities” in my state and it’s smaller than a “small town” in the last state I lived in, not having a car here is impossible. The most environmentally friendly thing to do would be abandon all technology and eat berries in a cave and die at 30 because of poor hygiene, your comment is irrelevant to the conversation at hand.

            • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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              6 days ago

              Don’t worry about it. You’ll be dead from a multiple simultaneous crises. Your car won’t save you.

              We in the “rich” world already have a housing crisis where masses would love a cave over their current sleeping rough. Berries would be nice too and hunger is all too well known in the developed world.

              You are way out of touch. Congratulations to be so fortunate.

          • RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world
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            7 days ago

            That’s a great idea unless you are rural. City folks can do these things far easier than people that the nearest store is 10 miles away.