As long as we don´t get a graphene battery up and running, electric vehicles will do more harm for the enviroment than good.,(reply>), Well again, in theory if people actually drive their EV more than 20K miles they would have made up for the CO2 emissions vs most cars. That being said, the battery still makes waste though there actually are lithium recycling plants. They just are rarely used to be made into new batteries. It's like how plastic recycling more makes those plastic planks rather than new plastic bottles.