There is a new internet-meme going around, misinforming about electric cars.

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15. It's a matter of scale, EVs use a ~lot~ of batteries....

For instance an 18650 cell, probably the most common one, is eighteen mm in diameter and sixty five mm long, the current Tesla sedan uses over five thousand of them, usually there are six in a standard full size laptop battery and nine in the extended use model.

Lithium though is to a big extent recyclable, it isn't used up in the process of wearing out a battery and can be reclaimed at the end of life.

Not to mention that long after an EV battery is no longer useful for powering an EV it can still be used for stationary power where the demands are far less severe, for your solar power system for instance, DIY types are doing this already and sooner or later it will become a commercial thing.