1) The geopolitical expenses of Lithium are already too expensive for the EV future. Unless of course you want to destroy whole countries to get that future and some countries will not cooperate so easily. (i.e. have Nuclear Weapons to defend their resources.)
2) What is it, 100AMPs per EV to charge it in a practical and TIMELY manner as a gas vehicle. Catastrophic consequences on the third world like power grid in the USA of hooking up 100's of millions of 100AMP pulls on the power grid is going to collapse infrastructure. Hospitals, Banks, DataCenters your refrigerator is not going to work. You had people dying on operating tables in Texas from just a simple cold snap because the power went out when their little wind mills failed.
Just getting a wee bit cold or a wee bit hot destroys the USA's Third World power grid.
3) There is the durability cost and environmental impacts of car batteries. Most of my cars I own operate till they had 200K miles on them. At any given time MAX, the repair bill was like 1800 dollars when I had to do maintenance. Not cheap, but managable on a credit card loan etc.
EV's have ginormous expenses associated with batteries requring huge sums of money all up front in a short period of time to fix them. That is not practical, EVEN if you pay more for a gas powered vehicle expense wise over the same amount of time, the expenses are far smaller to deal with.
4) Any company who tells you they are recycling Lithium batteries is lying to you. In fact they are same people who are landfilling thier wind mills by the hundreds of thousands.
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