No, driving an EV doesn't mean you care. Did you just wake up from 2012? This is 2022. People don't drive EVs because they care about the environment, at least the majority of them don't.<br><br>Forget nickel, cobalt, and lithium for one second. Tell me what element is mined that isn't environmentally destructive. It's like all of a sudden people just learned about how the mining process works and society uses metals. Where do we get aluminum, copper, iron, chromium, lead, manganese,etc.?<br><br>Whenever I hear people complain about mining required for EV batteries, I think of vegans complaining about pollution from cattle farming. Actually, it's even worse than vegans since cattle isn't renewable like lithium, nickel, and cobalt. We can't take human excrement and turn it into another cow like we can take an EV battery and extract the metals and produce another battery. Y'all know 99% of lead in batteries are recycled right? 🤦‍♂️<br><br>Your whole argument hinges on most EV owners caring about the environment. I can tell you for a fact that's not true and as EV adoption increases, it'll be very evident. I don't know where you live, but EV adoption isn't that small of a minority anymore and there's not that that many people who really care about the environment.