people often seem to forget that mining the stuff that makes the batteries is still a thing. That's a whole different ballgame, and however you want to look at:

people often seem to forget that mining the stuff that makes the batteries is still a thing. That's a whole different ballgame, and however you want to look at: it's finite. Couple the fact that the raw materials often come from less-than-stable geographical regions, it might become Oil 2.0 (with similar wars fought over it).