Most of the battery degradation happens early. I think there have been Tesla’s that have been driven for 1 million miles.

In terms of the rare earth minerals, the answer is no, they are far from plentiful. And they are extremely toxic to mine. We don’t mine them is the US. Most mining occurs in SE Asia and South America and is done by children. The kids who mined the materials for my battery are probably all dead from cancer. The mining takes more fossil fuels than the EV will ever save - it’s a joke.

One benefit is that EV’s produce more CO2 than ICE vehicles when the battery production is taken into account. Two separate German studies produced these results. CO2 is great for the environment so that’s one nice benefit of EV’s.