The US’s transition to electric vehicles could require three times as much lithium as is currently produced for the entire global market, causing needless water shortages, Indigenous land grabs, and ecosystem destruction inside and outside its borders, new research finds.
It warns that unless the US’s dependence on cars in towns and cities falls drastically, the transition to lithium battery-powered electric vehicles by 2050 will deepen global environmental and social inequalities linked to mining – and may even jeopardize the 1.5C global heating target.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/24/us-electric-vehicles-lithium-consequences-research
Now did they just wake up to the very obvious or is this part of a plan? EVs are not made of fairy dust, who would have guessed.