Again I don't hate EVs.
I hate the .gov giving tax rebates to rich MFs that can own 2 or 3 cars, 1 being an EV that MY TAX money helped pay for, so he/she has another toy.
Fine, I agree there. At the very least have income limits for the rebate. It might make sense to help poor people buy EVs since they'll save substantially in operating costs but the rich don't need help.
The MANDATING by the same .gov crowd the end of gas based transportation by 20xx something.
I guess you don't live in a place where air pollution is a problem. I could go on also but I'll keep it short. There are huge geopolitical and health issues with fossil fuels. That's why these mandates exist. It's a pity we didn't start doing this in the 1970s after the first OPEC oil crisis but better late than never.
That the batteries require strip mining for elements that far out weigh any "environmental" benefit.(lets not talk about the slaves & minorities that do the mining)
LiFePO4 fixes most of those issues except for mining lithium. The US has lots of lithium reserves. We can also mine lithium from seawater. There are also other chemistries just reaching commercialization, like sodium-ion and iron-air. Those will make it into EVs within a decade.
That there is no way (currently) to recycle the batteries that have a limited life span & no way to dispose of them.
No, it's more like the large scale infrastructure to do this isn't currently in place simply because there hasn't been a need for it. The recycling will happen as EV batteries age out. It'll be no different than what we do now with lead-acid.
There will also be a huge secondary market for EV batteries which may have lost enough capacity to no longer be viable in a car, but they'll still be useful for grid storage. Eventually they'll lose enough capacity to no longer be viable even for that, then they'll get recycled.
That "they" close power plants, refusing to build others & refuse to talk about the brown/blackouts that are already happening w/o the strain of 100,000s more EVs in every state.
Well, you have the irrational fear of nuclear power to thank for that. We shouldn't be closing nuclear plants. We should be building new ones. Lots of them.
How about the fact no car company has made a profit selling EVs? Not one. Tesla showed their 1st profit selling made up (by .gov) "carbon credits" to makers of gas powered cars/trucks. It's not even close to a level playing field & still they can't force (YET) enough of us into EV that are well below true "cost" because of OUR TAX $$.
If we want a level playing field then I suggest we also stop
fossil fuel and
automotive subsidies.
In a world where the playing field was truly level you know what would likely win out? The mode of transport with the lowest inherent costs, namely rail. Rail was how we largely got around before the government started picking winners and losers after WWII.
As an aside, the criteria of making a profit isn't always relevant for areas where there's a societal need, like transportation. Point of fact by most metrics, if you count the cost of infrastructure, commercial passenger aviation hasn't made a dime. In fact, most other modes of transport never made a dime in the strict sense. The government bankrolled their infrastructure. The operators only had to cover the cost of their vehicles and labor in order to make money. Ironically, the only mode which truly makes a profit, in that it fully covers both operating and infrastructure costs, are freight railroads.