ELECTRIC VEHICLES

This article provides information not readily available to the consumer.
coloradosun.com/2022/07/26/electric-vehi...es-charging-opinion/
For example:
According to the World Economic Forum, producing an electric vehicle contributes, on average, twice as much to “global warming potential” and uses double the amount of energy than is used to produce an internal combustion engine car. The reason is the battery..

A 1,000-pound electric-vehicle battery contains 25 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds of cobalt, and 200 pounds of copper. A Tesla Model S battery weighs 1,200 lbs. The battery in a GMC electric-powered Hummer weighs almost 3,000 pounds.

To get these metals for one 1,000-pound battery requires 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for cobalt, 5,000 pounds for nickel, and 25,000 pounds for copper. These are extracted from a total of 500,000 pounds of rock and soil that must be excavated and processed for one battery.

Mining cobalt and lithium come with sourcing and health problems. Just one country — The DRC — holds 70% of the world’s Cobalt reserves, and one of the DRC’s big customers is China. Breathing the dust of either element can be harmful."

The author, to be fair, points out that EV's lessen the amount of air pollution in cities, if they displace ICE vehicles.

Europe and other places want to ban new ICE's by 2030 or earlier. I doubt this will be accomplished. Not enough materials to go from 5% of the market to 100% in eight years. Plus not enough infrastructure for charging all these new EV's.

Of interest there are 6-8 Tesla chargers in the Conifer King Sooper's complex. I have never seen anyone charging in the many times that I have passed by.