Again, not strip mining.  However I did make a mistake in lithium production. It is only 36,000 tonnes/year. Again, an even smaller fraction of the 100,000,000 barrels of oil consumed every day and still a minute fraction of the environmental impact of burning oil.  

Only a few percent of a Li-ion battery is actually lithium. The batteries are finding a second life as grid storage. Recycling of lithium has also grown notably since Japan opened the first lithium-ion battery recycling plant in 1992. Facilities in Belgium, Germany, Japan, the US and Canada can now all process batteries for their lithium and other components.

And the amount of lithium used in EVs is still less than what is used in consumer electronics.