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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (137324)	12/25/2017 2:30:08 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220227

As Asia's natural resources dwindle (via ageing) the world is trying to manufacturing sans people. Robots and automation 3D printing. Of course with the most brilliant minds on the business this will have an impact on the world of manufacturing But as always there won't be a digital Nirvana which is propagated by the marketeers. Take electric cars. Here enters Elmat your Asian expert with a perspective that you will not find anywhere else. t costs a lot to dismantle and recycle cars in Japan. Japan export the used cars to Africa after using them with good maintenance. Come with 80.000 Km on the odometer and clock another 100.000 in the African roads. Developed countries 'exporting pollution' by trading second-hand vehicles to poorer countries, experts say Experts predict that the number of vehicles in developing countries will increase four- or five-fold by 2050. The trade grew by 14.4 percent between 1997 and 2007, from 1.24 million to 4.7 million, according to a report by the Global Fuel Economy Initiative. devex.com Now follow my line of thought, ( a thing that the so-called Asian expert from HK can't) If Japan goes electric, the cars still need to be dismantled and recycled. Africa can't take these electrical cars (Tokumbos in Nigerian slang). The gird barely keep up with the rice cookers and kettles. No African in his right mind would by an electrical car with the brown outs and blacks outs Africa is used to. This fact percolates upstream and Japanese would stick to the internal combustion engined cars as they can be exported to Africa. Only a hgh technology country cal recycle a bag of chemical inside an electrical car. Governments will do something, they are not going to permit [electric car batteries] to end up in landfills Jim Greenberger, executive director of NAATBatt International Rise of electric cars poses battery recycling challenge Start ups hope to find ways round problems of lithium-ion reuse https://www.ft.com/content/c489382e-6b06-11e7-bfeb-33fe0c5b7eaa Most likely, the cars will be recycled by Africans migrating to European countries