It takes a lot more environmental destruction and toxic pollution to make a lithium battery for an electric car than to make a steel gas tank for an internal combustion engine conventional car.
Multiply that destruction by 450,000,000 cars every 15 years (about half the cars on the planet) by 1000 years (a blink in the future history of humanity). That requires the fabrication and recycling of 30,000,000,000 (30 billion) large lithium batteries, thousands of new power plants, gas pipelines, and coal trains.
