YOUR REALITY is completely one-sided:<br><br>Please compare to fossil fuels, for example the world currently mines 0.1 million tons of lithium per year (can last decades, and can recycled again and again). Compared to 86,000 million tons of coal,  32,814 million barrels of oil and 4,000,000,000,000 cubic meters of natural gas destroying and poisoning 1000's of times more land than all the materials required by EVs. Water use: 17% of all freshwater globally is used is in energy production from fossil fuels and nuclear. (10% of all US water evaporates in cooling towers)<br>Lithium mining currently uses around 0.0001% of worlds freshwater <br><br>No ALL EV's don't use Cobalt, less than 50% and decreasing, Tesla's standard range now use Lithium-iron-Phosphate (No Cobalt, no Nikel)<br><br>Fact: Most of the cobalt ever mined over the last hundred years has been used in the production of high octane Gasoline and Diesel (100% of all Gasoline and diesel requires large quantities of Cobalt, compared Less than 50% of EV's contain any Cobalt)<br><br><br>Yes EV's currently take slightly more energy to construct, but this is decreasing rapidly from the economies of scale (100's of milions of ICE are mass produced, and has taken a 100 years to perfect) EV's are new technology, once production is refinded and Ev's are mass produced on the same scale, with mass recycling of the batteries, they will average no more construction if not less, than ICE cars, and require a fraction of the energy run and maintain.<br><br>One usage fact:<br>A small family car would required 6kg of Lithium, that last 15 years and can then be recyled. and a drive system that needs almost zero maintenance.<br>or 40kg tank of of Gasoline,  per week, 2000 kg per year, 30,000 kg over a 15 year average life and cannot be recycled! Plus requires many oil changes, oil filters, fuel filters, spark plugs, injectors, timing belts, catalectic coverts etc.... (The additional service environmental cost along of an ICE car over 15 years outweighs the additional construction cost of an EV)