1- I make this point in the article. Read it again.

2- still marginal. Call me when it covers all owners.

3- sure but you don’t recapture everything and the most useful part of lithium batteries — the lithium — is particularly difficult. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/aug/10/electric-cars-big-battery-waste-problem-lithium-recycling

4- “much cheaper to maintain”? On a pure maintenance basis, battery powered vehicles are marginally less expensive than ice vehicles — https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626191731526X?via%3Dihub Plus, that article uses vehicles other than Teslas which, unlike the Leaf or Volt, is much more expensive to maintain and has higher insurance.

5- again, you seem to be under the mistaken impression that the criticism applies equally to ALL BEVs — it doesn’t. Read the article title…this is about Tesla.

Also, I appreciate interaction, but please read the article and check out the links before you lob accusations that I should “do some research”.