Electric is not a solution yet. With the technology we currently have, the only solution is to stop using cars for private transportation altogether.
In reality, the world will continue chugging along on gas for some time until the entire economic equation flips. We're still not ready for that, and I don't think it's going to happen in the next decade.
Oil is still what the market chooses.
(Obviously that isn’t trivial.)
This article from 2015 sums it up pretty well: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Is-There-Enough...
Edit: and to add, I don't want to attack you personally but the kind of "market will take care of it" thinking you shown here is exactly the problem. The market will just exhaust our lithium reserves in a few decades if let on its own. I'd even argue that the market should be excluded outright from limited resources at this point.
No serious person claims that. The bogus article you linked to doesn't even claim that. Lithium is as common as copper in the earth's crust; the USGS estimates 13.5 million metric tons of it. We are presently limited only by the scale of current lithium mining operations.
"Rest assured, Earth has the lithium. The next dozen years will drain less than 1 percent of the reserves in the ground, BNEF says. But battery makers are going to need more mines to support their production, and they’ll have to build them much more quickly than anyone thought."
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-lithium-battery-futu...
By the time we get anywhere close to dwindling natural resources, it's likely that opportunities for lithium recycling will ramp up.
And we are not even accounting all the pollution caused by the production of batteries.
From Forbes[0]:
"The drawbacks of the mining industry itself have weighed heavily against the rise of batteries. Mining rare earth and heavy metals emit large amounts of emissions whilst also having a noticeable impact on the environment. Around half of lithium mining comes from brine extraction while the rest is hard rock mining, which has even more damaging consequence to the environment."
Finally to charge these battieries, we will still be using dirty energy sources for the foreseeable future, since renewables are nowhere near to be enough to stop using coal/gas/biomass.
I stand convinced that the only way we have is to rethink entirely our habits of transportation.
[0] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesellsmoor/2019/06/10/electr...