Via WUWT, The dark side of Electric Vehicles
You might also be amused by this electric bus in Paris catching fire, also found at WUWT:
There's a lot of chemical energy stored in a charged Li-ion battery; if something goes wrong, it can go south in a hurry.
For what it's worth, the US does have significant cobalt deposits, mostly untapped due to America's recent turn away from extractive industries. That doesn't solve the burning battery issue, but it would take problem of the supply being controlled by China away to some extent. I'm not sure I see how to solve the childhood mining problem in Africa short of making it too cheap to be worthwhile, and I don't see that as likely.
FWIW, we have a Toyota RAV 4 hybrid, and we like it.
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