system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If electric cars are the future, what will be the long term impact on the environment from the many batteries that will need to be disposed of?
gpt
Disposed batteries is a bit of a misnomer. Telsa for example, plans on recycling the battery packs present in their cars for reuse. Obviously it requires energy to recycle them and make new batteries out of them, but there shouldn't be any massive need to dump batteries somewhere since they can all be reused. Any negative consequences are far outweighed by the pollution and damage to the environment that cars with internal combustion engines produce.  

Electric vehicles have no tailpipe emissions and have a much simpler design - a lot less material is needed to produce an electric vehicle (excluding the battery pack) compared to an ICE, so that should also offset any damage caused by an EV-centric economy.