To be fair to Tesla, they are actively trying to get away from using these foreign companies to source their batteries. I even saw a report that Tesla bought the rights to the largest cobalt deposit ever found that is right here in America...the problem is that massing government regulations and ongoing environmentalist protests have prevented the mining operation from going forward. It is not necessarily that the substances themselves are overly damaging, but the way the waste, mining operations and labor forces are being used in 3rd world countries are completely unregulated. So many problems could be solved if we were simply willing to bring the production here to our country where it can be monitored and regulated, but the same morons who buy the cars and think they are doing good are the same people who vote for laws and take part in protests that prevent actual good from being done.