I once saw a photo of the environment surrounding a mine from which minerals were extracted to manufacture electric car batteries. This was maybe in Canada?!? The area looked like what you would expect after extensive mining operations had been going on - depleted and devastated.

That was when I knew electric cars were an environmental scam. They may truly be viable alternative forms of transportation, but in terms of environmental impact I realized they didn't necessarily fare better. It seems we Americans find oil drilling beneath us, it is degrading to have to drill for oil in plain ugly view. So what do we do, we push the dirty work of mining for resources far enough away into foreign countries where we can't see the dirty work being done, then convince ourselves it's environmentally better. Kinda like recycling that aluminum.

There may be some benefits to a pure electric car in terms of maintenance - you don't have to dispose of that engine oil, and maintaining the car overall is probably less of a grease-fest. Fewer oil-based consumables that are quickly depleted and must be replaced - as shown in Who Killed the Electric Car? But a very big consumable (battery) that is consumed and must be replaced.

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Susan