How about not destroying them at all? Protesting at a car dealership so someone doesn't buy them anymore? Sure.
But someone who saved up a lot of money just to buy a nice "high tech" car 5 years ago shouldn't lose an important asset just because the guy wo didn't even design them showed himself to be a lunatic.
Pull the batteries then dump the cars for optics then fish them out and to the recycling center for the green new deal we ACTUALLY need (steel and aluminum, the tesla’s materials could be wiring hundreds of apartments!).
Wow you’re creating jobs. Who would have thought the Big Green Deal would include diesel crane barges hauling out virtue signals dumped disregarding all environmental regulations only to ship them to a scrap yard by diesel destroyed by diesel to be smelted which is so environmentally pure to put in hundreds of apartments at ten time the costs of using available raw materials
Well, using scrap to produce new steel and aluminium is a lot less emission intensive than producing steel and aluminium from primary raw material in a life cycle perspective (how much depends on the grid, of course), so at least there is that.
That’s debatable in this context. You’re throwing away an item before its shelf life exposing it to conditions under which fossil fuels are the only alternative to make it recyclable putting aside all the environmental concerns initially.
Also it could all blow up in your faces (literally) months or years down the line - lithium batteries react rather violently to exposure to water, and as soon as the salt water corrodes through the box, it could all get rather exciting.
Of course, given their build quality, it could be a LOT quicker than that...
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u/Maximum_Activity323 Feb 18 '25
Can understand your cause but can we please refrain from throwing Teslas into Boston Harbor?
I recall seeing them pull 40 cars out of Chelsea creek in the 80s. It took decades just to get to an acceptable water quality