Battery powered vehicles are not the future, lithium is a limited resource like fossil fuels, the car industry should be focusing it’s efforts on hydro fuel cell technology and the goverment should be helping setup the infastructure in order for it to be feesible
Lithium is abundant, estimated at 230 billion tonnes in seawater, & 0.002% of Earth’s crust.
However, it’s often found in relatively low concentrations in rocks so it can be costly to extract.
Fossil fuels are burned, lithium in car batteries stays in the car battery, a 64kW battery contains about 4kg of lithium and it will eventually be recycled rather than burned. The main way lithium gets destroyed is by fusion in stars (as does hydrogen of course).
Now, hydrogen fuel cells, they look great on paper but currently suffer from catalyst contamination, as in the surfaces get clogged. To avoid this you’d need to run them in a closed process, storing the hydrogen (already stored in cylinders) and the oxygen (do you really want such a dangerous gas stored in a cylinder in your car?), then catching the distilled water for reuse. I want hydrogen fuel cells to, but until the problems can be solved when using oxygen from the atmosphere it’s not going to be rolled out to the masses.
So, you can have electric cars right now, you can have hydrogen fuel cell cars in perhaps 15 years if the problems get solved, or you can wait that elusive 50 years for a fusion powered car, remember fusion, 50 years ago it was 50 years away, it’s still 50 years away unless there’s a breakthrough & there are a lot of people working on it.