Far more damage is a claim that I find hard to believe.
If you put an electric car on a lot and a gas car on the lot, and measure damage from point of sale and on the electric would do less damage. The construction of the electric vehicle, and more specifically the battery, (which is comprised of components already endangered & becoming rapidly scarce, partially due to accessibility as well, and is curently projected to become more expensive) will do farrrr more damage than the gas powered car. Additionally because batteries arent always repairable, and the sky high costs of repairing one, majority of insurance companies scrap an electric car for what would otherwise be fixable on a gas car). And like you said about location, the largest nation's are on earth, are ones who's power source won't be coming from "clean" energy.
If you put an electric car on a lot and a gas car on the lot, and measure damage from point of sale and on the electric would do less damage. The construction of the electric vehicle, and more specifically the battery, (which is comprised of components already endangered & becoming rapidly scarce, partially due to accessibility as well, and is curently projected to become more expensive) will do farrrr more damage than the gas powered car. Additionally because batteries arent always repairable, and the sky high costs of repairing one, majority of insurance companies scrap an electric car for what would otherwise be fixable on a gas car). And like you said about location, the largest nation's are on earth, are ones who's power source won't be coming from "clean" energy.
I’ve seen these reports and I’ve yet to see one that isn’t flawed in any way, either paid for by the petroleum industry or by “green” industry.
A “scrapped” EV is still reused in parts.
If the battery is so expensive to “mine”, it makes no sense to leave it unused when a BEV is crashed.
A used battery from a wrecked BEV is either refurbished if not too damaged, or the rare earth minerals are reused in other components.
This reuse of batteries makes the calculations very difficult, and to claim farrrrr more, requires proof.
Remember that it takes about 1kWh of electric energy to get 1 litre of 95 octane from the oil well to the cars tank.
And that’s a fact that’s never in the petroleum industry’s calculations.
Neither is the reuse of battery components from a BEV.