Recycling is a last resort. The mantra goes "reduce, re-use, recycle". In that order. Recycling is a last resort. Please don't jump to it first. That's what p

Recycling is a last resort. The mantra goes "reduce, re-use, recycle". In that order. Recycling is a last resort. Please don't jump to it first. That's what people who want to virtue-signal do, not what smart people do. Electric cars definitely cause less harm to the natural environment and people's health wellbeing than fossil fuel powered cars, so "reduce" is covered, even if not optimally. People are also definitely re-using lithium batteries. Since lithium batteries are a new thing, there is not yet a great enough flow of worn-out batteries to justify recycling at industrial scale as yet. Those as exist are being stockpiled for this, though. And a lot of R&D work is being done to set up for recycling.