“and then there is pollution involved in making the batteries and disposing of them, they cannot be recycled.”
Tesla recycles 100% of their batteries.
That's impressive. Just the cost of shipping them from junkyards to the recycling plant is significant.
You might want read up on that a little more.
https://www.science.org/content/article/millions-electric-cars-are-coming-what-happens-all-dead-batteries