• You dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth's crust for just one battery. 
• A typical EV battery weighs 1,000 pounds,
• It contains 25 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds of cobalt, 200 pounds of copper and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel and plastic.
• Inside are over 6,000 individual lithium-ion cells. 
• Requires processing 25,000 pounds for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. 
• Mining of the ore typically requires thirty-five to forty huge 797 Caterpillar haul trucks.
• Each 797 truck uses around half a million gallons of diesel fuel a year [multiplied by thirty-five and then multiplied by the number of mines.]  

Also at the end of those batteries lives, the toxins in the chemicals will produce problems in the landfills.  Again, huge anti-environmental waste "stuff."