This is actually something Jeremy Clarkson (a British TV presenter who is also a massive petrolhead) has brought up. He said that he is all for electric cars if they didn't require so many components that need to be mined and then shipped to the plants causing just as much (if not more) pollution than regular old petrol cars.,(reply>), @Brian You can but they don't. The labour cost of pulling batteries apart makes it not worth the candle. What they do is shred the battery into tiny cubes. Put them in a box and ship them back to the 3rd world where they are buried.,(reply>), @thaddeus buttmunch again, compared to the strip mining of the materials needed for the batteries, the oil spill impact is far less. You people are acting like I said that oil was safer, when I said that it's safe"r" for the environment, accident DO happen, they are incredibly rare.,(reply>), @keiichimorisato98 Which is a LOT of impact.. And, then you have Exxon Valdez and the Horizon blowout, killing lots of Sea Life.,(reply>), @Brian yeah. You can recycle batteries, but the damage to the environment from the mining process isn't evened out just because you can recycle the material.,(reply>), @Brian the damage caused by these spills is significantly less than the damage cause from Lithium and cobalt mining. Also, those spills are very rare.