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Are Tesla Electric Cars Environmental Green?

Are Tesla Electric Cars Environmental Green?. Production, Hazardous Waste and Mechanical Design of a Tesla Electric Car: Mini Hazardous Waste Report Proposal . Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Solid Hazardous Waste Prevention and Air Control Engineering (MANE-6960) Spring 2014 Sean Paquette.

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Are Tesla Electric Cars Environmental Green?

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  1. Are Tesla Electric Cars Environmental Green? Production, Hazardous Waste and Mechanical Design of a Tesla Electric Car: Mini Hazardous Waste Report Proposal Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Solid Hazardous Waste Prevention and Air Control Engineering (MANE-6960) Spring 2014 Sean Paquette

  2. Introduction • Report Proposal – The production, hazardous waste and mechanical design of electric vehicles in the U.S. will be examined Tesla Motors – Case Study • Tesla Motors in a publically traded American automobile manufacturing company • Founded 2003 • Tesla Roadster – First electric vehicle produced • Tesla rechargeable battery packs are manufactured in Japan under strict environmental laws • Tesla batteries are “mostly made from lithium metal oxides with zero lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, PBBs or PBDEs • Tesla says that, by law its battery cells could be landfilled, though that is not what they actually do

  3. Tesla Roadster

  4. Tesla’s Rechargeable Battery Pack

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