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Right, and what happens when we include the pollution used to make the entirety of the petroleum processing industry?

Oh, we're just going to ignore this inconvenient truth.

Right and what happens when include the pollution for disposing of those lithium ion batteries when they eventually die?

Oh, we're just going to ignore this inconvenient truth.

But please, let's keep lying by omission.

Right and what happens when we include the gas flaring that happens in the production of gas?

Oh, we're just going to ignore this inconvenient truth.

EV batteries aren't disposed of, they're reused as stationary storage, then recycled, with over 97% of the raw materials recoverable to put into new batteries as of 2021. Redwood Materials recycles over 60 tons of them per day, and has another facility opening in 2023 that can handle an additional 125,000 tons per year. The materials are too valuable to throw out, so a market for reusing and recycling them has existed as long as li-ion electric cars have existed.

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