When you have your nice shiny new car I recommend trying a 'commercial rapid charger' locally before you go on any long journeys. Just to get the feel and experience and to make sure everything is OK. Better local than 150 miles from home at a service station. :)
'Keepa' is my preferred choice. It automatically loads on any product you look at as part of the page and shows price history for that product if on the website or share the item to it on a mobile.
I also bought Soundcore the Q30 when they were on offer. Superb and well rated. Bought noise cancelling so I could also use on the plane and hear something (hopefully).
It is more of a tourer, and price wise similar to say a BMW Z4 with equivalent spec. As has been said before it's quite hard to exclude everything 'Chinese made' from your possessions.
Approx 95% currently. Including the cobalt even though that is rapidly disappearing from use in batteries. The cobalt used in refining oil cannot be recycled.
From one source, there are many others https://renewablesassociation.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Recycling-Batteries-English-Web.pdf
As someone who claims to be an EV designer it seems you know very little about EVs and batteries. There is so much wrong in all you say that I find it hard to believe you have any knowledge in this area at all.
Perhaps you need to read this