I appreciate your disregard for Texas, but the article is rife with inaccuracies.

EV batteries, for example, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, may last 12 to 15 years in moderate climates. Conservative estimate is 10.

At EOL EV batteries can continue to be used for grid storage. Recycling is also ramping up, the primary restriction at the moment being the lack of batteries to recycle.

Battery manufacturers are as away of the problems with dependence on lithium and other metals as you seem to be, which is why sodium ion, lithium iron phosphate, and liquid flow batteries are under development and nearing or actually in production or use in grid storage solutions.

While we have to manage safety and other concerns, there's no reason said mining must be dirty, and clean every sources also let's us stop wholesale mountaintop removal for coal, the disaster that's tar sand and shale production, and other more serious ecological issues.

As someone else mentioned, wind turbine "failure" was primarily due to the turbines not being winterized by the utility. AFAIK, they still haven't been.