These arguments are getting tired. <br><br>1) Nickel -- you showed a clip of an article that said it: "regulations will help nickel mining become more environmentally friendly."  That is, we need to open up nickel mining to the first world so we can do it safely and appropriately -- and give the third world a financial incentive to do the same.  <br><br>2) battery production has a carbon footprint - yes, but regardless of what is used to power the EV, it will have a smaller total carbon footprint in its lifetime.  Yes, even when the EV is powered by coal.  EVs are just SO much more efficient than your average ICE car.  <br><br>3) Human rights violations in third world countries from whom we get raw materials.  Yeah, that's what happens when we do business with tyrannical dictatorships.  Pretty much every electronic on Earth has blood on it, but EVs are responsible for the atrocities committed in their creation?  Sorry, don't work that way.  But still, bring the industry to the first world so we can regulate it.  Then we'll see that the tyrannical dictators commit atrocities regardless of whether we buy the products from them or not.  <br><br>Ultimately, EV's aren't meant to save the environment writ large.  They're meant to save it *from CO2*.  And they do that.  Handily.  As I mentioned above, even when charging off of a coal power plant, they're more efficient than your average ICE car.  If you want to save the environment writ large, ride a bike.