The rare metals for electric vehicle batteries is the driving force behind this rape of the Amazon Basin. Do not make it so urgent to locate, extract, transport and refine these rare earth metals, by maybe not putting the all-out push for electrifying all road vehicles using exotic storage batteries as the propellant.
In terms of engineering, using electric motors to propel road vehicles is an excellent idea. But the means of providing this electric wattage to drive those motors is still sadly lacking, and shall remain so until a means of generating the electricity on-board as needed is made widely available. The hybrid internal combustion engine driving an electrical generator, to power the electric motors at the wheels, was one such approach, but is being quickly abandoned in the haste to phase out ALL “fossil fuels”, a fool’s errand if ever there was. We shall be using various forms of hydrocarbon-based fuels for decades if not centuries to come, because as an energy source, these fuels are compact, easily stored, and have an energy density per pound that just about outmatches any other system, except nuclear.