Producing the electrickery for electric vehicles is quite polluting - but this gets overlooked. 278g of carbons per kWh and 2.5 miles per kW. Not exactly green. The batteries themselves are full of heavy metals and other interesting non-recyclable chemicals - lithium iron phosphates, lithium titanate.... made in Beijing, Xiamen and other far flung places and then shipped around the planet.
The proposition is that the leccy used will be from wind or solar because that conversion is going on in parallel. Lithium is not one of the heavy metals - it is in fact the lightest. And no inorganic compound is non -recyclable though whether its economic is a different issue.
