There isn’t enough lithium in the world to replace all the vehicles currently on the road. Until they convince the population that personal vehicles are an unnecessary luxury (through punitative taxation) this won’t fly.
The problem with that is that personal vehicles are a necessity for a lot of people. I live 15 miles from my work in an area with few paved roads, let alone public transport.
That's how we designed our infrastructure. Turn of the century electric rail ways and public transport were on the rise. LA itself (known as THE car capital of at least the west coast if not America) had thousands of miles of light rail. It was bought up and destroyed by car and rubber makers to incentivize people to car ownership. In California John Daly created a prototype of a self contained town, where schools, doctors, shops, and all nevcesities were in walking distance to most homes, and public transit could fill the gaps. I lived there and loved it. But to do this we would need to make major changes to how we live and build. We'd need a whole new infrastructure, and as is much of america (especially rural areas and high dollar value property areas) simply can't function without personal transport, and its creation would take decades and untold amounts of money.
Calling something revolutionary before it has even gone into service may be a stretch. The design has serious problems that people have already pointed out in regards to safety and operation. Compounding that is Teslas own data on degradation of battery packs over service life. The specs when new quickly fall off. Search Tesla forums for real world max ranges in extreme temperatures to see another possible issue with this "revolution," Personally having driven a roadster to Sonoma in the summer I watched the range plummet after being parked. In short there are both valid observations as well as unanswered long term questions on both the truck itself and an "electric transportation grid" powered off fossil fuel burning power plants and an aging and meager infrastructure. The ability to produce enough raw materials, to create enough battery packs (Tesla is currently maxing out there), and how to dispose of or recycle them at end of life. Looks certainly aren't the big problem here.
Questionable. Massive strip mines already exist to supply today's battery needs without all vehicles being electric. Asides the damage done there (and by expanding the operations) what of the chemical and heavy metal waste from production, and end of life toxic batteries that can't be reused? There's also the fact that batteries in general vastly decrease in performance through their lives. Then the fact these batteries are charged off of a primarily fossil fueled power grid, that unless other technologies to generate power are brought along very soon that the only other option that can supply the increased demand of a mass electric vehicle roll out would be nuclear power. I won't bring up ozone and other things which aren't studied enough to really predict at this point. Good for the environment may not be an accurate statemen, with modern pollution controls and shorter than ever vehicle life cycles pre and post cycle impact is now a bigger concern than emissions.
Your fashion sense doesn't matter.