Brumar, I'm buying this because of the metals used in the vehicle and especially it's battery. Lots of energy mining and smelting and transporting them. Aluminum takes a lot of energy to produce, but not THAT much. An 12oz aluminum soda takes about as much energy to produce as if that can were filled halfway with gasoline. (OK, that's an awkward analogy, but it still says a lot about the energy-to-weight ratio of aluminum production.)
I don't know what it takes to produce the lithium used in the battery, but there's no way it takes the energy equivalent of 1,400 gallons of diesel. The lithium only takes up a very small amount of the battery's weight, according to the diagrams you posted.
The other materials that go into the battery can't be that energy-intensive to produce. No way. Well, maaaaaybe given that the cost to replace the battery is on the order of $10,000, and that cost would include the energy costs to produce the materials, including the lithium. But a lot of that energy cost should be offset by recycling, similar to aluminum.
I could go on with the speculation, but just as the facts can be (and often are) distorted by the environmentalist wackos, they can also be distorted by those trying to fight them.
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