Fantastic job explaining the hard to accept reality of what it takes to build the battery for an ev. There are two more subjects that need to be addressed.  1st in America 80% of our electricity production is still coal power . The remaining 20% is solar &amp; wind. Solar is on par with the cobalt/lithium as far as extraction of precious quarts material. 2nd ev recharging is a huge demand on our underbuilt power grid structure.  pay attention to what appliances we are asked to avoid or adjust usage of when then grid is under stress... air conditioning &amp; EV cars. I beleive the US is currently 1.5% ev cars and that is is enough the take down our grid?  Imagine if we were 5 or 10% ev . Why isn't this front and center on the minds of our douche bag congress/ senate/house of reps/ ?