Source?
The US Department of Energy commissioned a report that indicates the opposite of your claim.
https://greet.es.anl.gov/files/vehic..._manufacturing
Juan Pablo Angulo, Mechatronic engineer, crunches some numbers from that report and summarizes the following:
https://www.quora.com/How-much-energ...n-electric-car
The energy and resources required to produce a gasser plus the gas it consumes over those 200,000 km will be more than for an electric vehicle.
While it DOES require more energy and resources to produce an electric vehicle, it makes up for it in the operation over 200,000 km
Australia
Chile
Argentina
China
Top 4 lithium mining countries, with Australia at the top. Hardly 3rd world countries, but I will give you the miner and worker safety records for Chile and China are not great.
https://investingnews.com/daily/reso...ing-countries/