Also, gas is single use, but lithium and cobalt are infinitely recyclable. When you calculate the environmental cost of producing your EV's battery, it's not re

Also, gas is single use, but lithium and cobalt are infinitely recyclable. When you calculate the environmental cost of producing your EV's battery, it's not really appropriate to assign all of that to just one car, because a lot of it will get recycled. This is the best argument I can think of when people start to talk about how awful lithium mining is for the planet. Yes, it does genuinely suck that we have to dig these giant holes in the ground, but at least when we find what we're looking for we don't ship it across the world and then literally set it on fire.