To be flippant, no kidding, that isn't surprising. Maybe we can power our cars off the energy spent talking past eachother over EVs the past decade.

The design goal of an EV is less emissions at the tailpipe, and to eventually be propelled by renewable electricity depending on your local grid.

The benefits of that are cleaner city air, and eventually lower carbon emissions from the generation of the energy that propels them. A current downside to that is the minerals used to make the batteries are costly to get.

EVs are one option forward, hydrogen ICE might be cool too. Neither is perfect yet, but they both have promising futures to be more sustainable than petrol/diesel.

Mining itself is an industry currently undergoing more electrification, which will bring down the carbon emissions of mining those minerals. Hydrogen from renewable energy is also possible, it just isn't cost effective versus fossil fuel derrived hydrogen while we still externalize the impact of fossil fuels.