"To replace the UK (not the UK) 31.5 million gasoline cars will require 236,000 tons of lithium carbonate." ~ quote from about 1:00 in the above video.
That would - again, according to the video - require all the world's output for 9 months.
And that metal comes from some countries with awful human rights records and workers' protections.
Then, if we mine the US's lithium, we have to use up water and leach arsenic into the water supply of Nevada...and dig into land holy to Native Americans...and destroy habitat for endangered animals.
It's the frickin' Kobayashi Maru, man.
Then we have to look at the cobalt mining.
To quote a magnet I got from the University of Utah, "what's your is mined," but clearly what's mined is bad for the planet and people.
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