Ya, lets see what actually happens with this. Electrek loves to write hit pieces on Tesla, and the last time a report came out saying SpaceX was polluting insane mercury levels, it was because of a misplaced decimal.

If something is amiss, lets see what happens next.

Edit: There is always going to pollution from something like this though, none of these processes are fully clean, its how you handle it that will matter.

Edit: It even says as much in this article (emphasis mine). None of this will ever be fully clean.

While domestic lithium production and extraction will be hugely beneficial for energy independence and resilience, it does come with some significant downsides. Lithium extraction tends to be extremely environmentally costly, posing major risks for local communities and water resources. Of course, homeshoring these processes instead of outsourcing them to poorer countries is not necessarily a bad thing – in fact, it’s ethically a far sounder approach.