How is EV greener in the long term than combustible engine vehicles?

Question

Don’t get me wrong. I know the vehicle itself will have way lower emissions and than a regular gas or diesel vehicle, but what I’m confused on is that they will have to mine to get the raw materials to make these batteries and then once the battery is done it’s lifespan they will need to find a way to dispose or recycle these batteries. Imagine doing that capacity when the whole world has transitioned to EV.

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Answer 1

You can produce energy (electricity) more efficiently in a power plant than you can produce it locally at the vehicle via gasoline. So all things equal, you make less bad stuff for the same amount of energy to make things go.