Scientific advice? scientists quite often don't agree with each other, don't forget the push to diesel UK had to tow the line on CO2 targets or face heavy penalties, I couldn't possibly imagine which engine manufacturers profited from this? oh hold on the lying cheating ones

As for the Lithium scare nonsense you read on this forum oh waily waily! They are already investing in recycling facilities to reprocess batteries and reuse the materials again in new batteries as it's to valuable a resource to let it go to waste. We are all still waiting for the fabled mythical batteries made from bunny wabbit kisses, turning a 5x5 cm test cell in a lab to a large scale manufacturing process is where they struggle and a lot of these startup companies with magic answers are ropey at best.