If “sustainability” was really the underlying motive for electric over gas, then perhaps more scrutiny would be given to the mining of lithium, which is a crucial component for modern ion battery tech. The resources required to get the metal out of the ground, not least the huge amounts of water, render it an ecological travesty in its own right. And this is before we consider all the electricity required to run the smart cities, which presumably would still be nuclear or fossil-based power sources. from:
https://www.coreysdigs.com/technology/will-autonomous-cars-drive-us-to-further-enslavement/