Here are the articles I was talking about in terms of the batteries.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-electric-cars

and

https://www.ivl.se/english/startpage...roduction.html

Tesla was specifically one of the cars studied I don't buy that the batteries in their cars are clean at all. I've read that they do attempt to recycle them after use but that came from the telsa website so I wouldn't say I'm 100% sold.

You can look up lithium mines and see pretty quickly that they're destructive. Some of the pits they dig are so huge that it's not safe to fly a plane over them. Just googling "environmental impact of lithium mining" will bring up plenty of support for that point.

I have no skin in the game but I really don't think electric cars are any more "clean" than a gas burning ones.