Yes - feel good about your electric car. Don’t worry about the 6 Year old mining the cobalt in the Congo for the battery.
What part of contaminating ground water and blowing up mountains to get lithium for batteries is good for the planet? And this is from The NY Times, not the most conservative source
Lithium Mining Projects May Not Be Green Friendly - The New York Times
Here’s a thoroughly modern riddle: what links the battery in your smartphone with a dead yak floating down a Tibetan river? The answer is lithium – the reactive alkali metal that powers our phones, tablets, laptops and electric cars.
The spiralling environmental cost of our lithium battery addiction | WIRED UK
In the case of cobalt, 60% of the world’s supply comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo where large numbers of unregulated mines use children as young as seven as miners.
Child labour, toxic leaks: the price we could pay for a greener future | Green economy | The Guardian