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You don’t need an elaborate simulation of the resources that go into manufacturing an EV. Just look at the energy it consumes and the efficiency.

Going by what the EV fanboys say EV motor efficiency is 85% and ICE motor efficiency is 30%. OK accepting this what next? The motor in an EV gets its electrons from a battery which is 95% efficient at returning to energy that was put into it. Not too bad so far, but where does the battery get its energy? Most get it from special charging units that are 90% efficient and the chargers get their energy from the distribution network 96% efficient which gets it from the transmission network which Is 92% efficient which gets its energy from various sources the largest of which is fossil, then nuclear then hydro and then wind 6% and solar 2% the so-called called renewables. Since the sun only shines during the day and wind capacity factor is 36% we really only get 3% out of renewables. Hydro and nuclear are base load plants so they run at maximum capacity leaving fossil to pick up the slack. Depending on where you look fossil is somewhere between 64% and 85% of the mix. Add 5% to the bottom and you come up with fossil as 69% of the mix. And fossil plants convert fossil fuel to energy at 33% efficiency.

So if you do the math you get EVs being 21% efficient at converting fossil fuel to energy compared to ICE engines at 30%. But since generation is not all fossil use 69% to get the final figure of 30.1% efficiency. That is EVs burn fossil fuel with about the same efficiency as modern ICE engines.

But wait there’s more. EVs run about 33% greater mass than comparable EVs so divide that 30.1% by 1.33 to get the final fuel efficiency of EVs giving 23% final fossil fuel efficiency

So in short EVs are a fraud when it comes to saving the planet without getting into the far greater resources required to produce them. They burn fossil fuels less efficiently than modern ICE engined vehicles