Shortage of battery materials was entirely predictable considering the rush to switch over to electric vehicles. Another would be the strain/partial collapse of the electric power grid.
Electric cars make sense in urban settings and may have gone beyond that if allowed to compete in a truly free-market. But we could be looking at an economic and land-fill disaster of epic proportions.
They talk about Electric Cars freeing us from oil dependency.
But now we have new dependencies on the materials for the batteries.
And where do they think all that energy required to charge the cars is going to come from?