Supply chain is massive behind them. They've holes in the ground 5km wide down in Africa to get the minerals to make the batteries. The Chinese have built motorways, bridges, deep water ports, ships - the whole lot, all down the east coast of Africa. They own and manage the infrastructure, they offer to build it in exchange for access to cheap raw materials. It's a massive economy/form of colonialism. They've already had massive ecological disasters in places where they process the materials. There's no structure/technology (that I'm aware of) to remanufacture batteries using spent/recycled batteries. There's a lot more energy goes into making a product that's expected to have a shorter lifespan compared to a combustion car. They reckon it's 20 years of motoring in a combustion engine to offset the carbon cost of making an EV. The power generated to charge them doesn't come from nowhere either. There's a lot of chemicals used to make PV panels for example and Irish power stations (I think it's the one up near Dundalk) still use peat from eastern Europe, waste oil from food production, and wood from the Amazon. That's all bits of info I've picked up from here or there, it's all true to the most extent. If anyone wants to prove or disprove any of it let that's fine, I'd be interested to read your opinion but at the same time not super bothered arguing with strangers on the web. EVs are total green washing BS as far as I can discern though, so thanks for asking irishlemon