Yes, batteries require lithium and cobalt. Much of the cobalt is conflict cobalt.

The lithium and cobalt in dead batteries can be recycled.

The right way to roll is to have both a battery and a gasoline generator. Then you can get by with a small battery. Make the generator and battery detachable.

The true purposes of batteries are silence and power. Energy is a secondary matter.
The amount of energy used by city vehicles is negligible compared to total energy production.

It's impossible to make a small gasoline-powered vehicle that is quiet. This is important for the health of cities. A way to conserve energy is to use tiny vehicles in cities, and these have to be electric.

Porsche and Ferrari made electric vehicles because batteries have eclipsed gasoline engines for power. The age of gasoline sports cars is over.

Electric vehicles: jaymaron.com/vehicle.html [jaymaron.com]

Gasoline vehicles have a power train, which includes things like a gear box, flywheel, crankshaft, axle, muffler, and oil system. In an EV the power train is merely wires that delivers power from the battery to the wheel motors. Much simpler. Fewer things that can break.

Gore has never dabbled in truth. The moment it shows up, he leaves the stage.

Typical liberal.

Likely All Gore imagines that electric cars are magically green.