Absolutely. Just mining and refining the copper for the motors (which in one car amounts to hundreds of miles of copper windings) produces tons and tons of toxic waster.
All of the exotic materials involved in the manufacture of the batteries is staggering. They are in limited supply, and much of it is mined by impoverished black children living in shi+hole countries.
It really requires a book to detail all the disadvantages of electric cars. If the NIMBYs don't like high tension electric transmission lines now, widespread adoption of electric vehicles will increase their count by an order of magnitude.
The direct conversion of chemical energy into motive force is tremendously efficient in comparison to the whole life cycle abuse of the environment entailed in the production and use of electric vehicles.
“The direct conversion of chemical energy into motive force is tremendously efficient”
Please excuse my ignorance. Are you referring to hydrogen?