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Caterpillar wheel loader consumes 1,000 liters of diesel in 12 hours to extract the lithium-ion needed to build a battery for an electrified vehicle from the ground

Caterpillar 994K wheel loader, 1,764 HP consumes 1,000 liters of diesel in 12 hours to extract lithium-ion from the ground to build a lithium-ion car battery

The fact that the electrification of cars has little to do with clean and green energy is also demonstrated by the consumption of diesel oil by the work machine that digs the ground to obtain the ores necessary for the production of lithium-ion batteries.

The spreadsheet of a monstrous Caterpillar 994 with 1,764 hp is the best silent witness to the general madness that affects us in this text.

To dig and load the 250 tons of earth needed to produce a lithium-ion battery for an electric car, this Caterpillar consumes up to 1,000 liters of diesel fuel in 12 hours of operation.

During this period, it transferred about 12 tons of lithium ore, 15 tons of cobalt ore, 3 tons of nickel ore, 12 tons of copper ore, with tailings, totaling 250 tons of earth crust.

Those 250 tons needed to produce ONE lithium-ion car battery end up containing about 12 kg of lithium, 30 kg of nickel, 22 kg of manganese, 15 kg of cobalt, 100 kg of copper, 200 kg of aluminum, steel and plastic.

“Collectors” of secondary raw materials, rub their hands a lot, catalysts and tensioners of the electrical network on the railways are just an ugly and unprofitable past!

by: Mundoquatrorodas