What I am curious about is how the emissions related to recycling batteries will negate the lifetime emission offsets of electric cars versus combustion engine

What I am curious about is how the emissions related to recycling batteries will negate the lifetime emission offsets of electric cars versus combustion engine cars. I am not entirely convinced EV cars will have a watershed effect on emissions as much as people think they will. I worry that, although they're likely to reduce emissions over lifetime ownership and use, they are a big distraction in terms of how much people are presumably betting on them saving us from climate change.