Thank all the gods living or dead.  I have been telling everyone that will listen for ages that EVs are the biggest scam ever visited upon humanity, but everyone has already drunk the Kool-Aid.  I read some research the other day that worked out that an EV with a comparable range than a similar Petrol powered vehicle will only break even on the carbon front after around 260000 miles, and that only takes into account the build cost and running cost in terms of being clean, says nothing about the human cost that you are highlighting here.  Also, those batteries are NOT recycled.  There are so many basic calculations one can do that will show you that an EV future is a complete and utter pipedream, but if you like you can do the back of the envelope calculation as to how much electricity generation is required to power an entire USA full of EVs (just cars mind you, not even including any other transportation).  Spoiler:  it is slightly less than the entire generation capacity at this moment, or in other words, will require the construction of around 1000 medium sized nuclear generators.  Not going to happen.  Oh, did I mention that there isn't enough lithium on earth to be mined to even build that many EVs?  People are being sold the EV lie because it is good for "political marketing".  Oh and, you better believe Tesla as a company is many, many, MANY times overvalued and WILL at some point collapse in share price, and when that happens, the whole thing will implode.  PS.  Elon Musk is a garbage human being, a grade A con artist, a liar and a thief.