Reply To: E10 Fuel

[Graham Wood]

Used batteries concern me too, and the Cobalt element especially as a large percentage is mined in the DRC. The child labour & human rights problems in the mining there are not good (to say the least) and it is a particularly unstable country (despite Belgium trying to make up for the many, many wrongs they inflicted there in the past).

It seems to me the ‘youth of today’ now regard cars as disposable items (along with everything else). The proportion of kids with their Adams, Zoes (and whatever other silly names there are out there) who would know basic mechanics is falling.

I wonder what the ‘shelf life’ of some of these cars is now? In theory they should last for years in terms of bodywork & reliability, and I imagine must all be full of highly recyclable components – which is good, but the energy expended in recycling as opposed to extending the life of the vehicles must be immense.