Most folks sell vehicles after they are done with if their is useful life for a used car sale. EV drive trains have an expected life of 1,000,000 miles. If you buy an EV with LFP battery, that battery have an expected life of 1,200,000 miles. Also uses zero nickel and cobalt.

When you buy an EV it grows the market and attracts capital to continuously improve EV batteries. Sodium batteries and Lithium sulfur graphene batteries have about 50% lower CO2 associated with production.