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Originally Posted by willravel
Only if you don't recycle them.
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Even if the manufacturing process.
Go to Sudbury and look at the nickel mines (Toyota buys about 1000 tons each year) and the 1,250-foot-tall smokestack that spews huge puffs of sulphur dioxide at the Sudbury mine and smelter operation has left a large swath of the surrounding area looking like a surrealistic scene from the depths of hell. The surrounding area is full of skeletons of trees and bushes that will remind you of ghostly sentinels guarding a sprawling wasteland.
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Originally Posted by David Martin, Greenpeace's energy coordinator in Canada
"The acid rain around Sudbury was so bad it destroyed all the plants, and the soil slid down off the hillside."
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Then all 1000 tons are shipped to China where its made into nickel foam, and then to Japan where they get assembled. The entire journey is over 100, 000 miles. Each and every mile is done on ships with dirty, inefficient engines or on diesel locomotives, not some hybrid car.
Even nicke batteries of the size used in cars are hard to replace, since there isn't a system that has been set up to recycle them. And, rechargeable batteries also lose charge slowly as well.