They are intended to save lives.
An EV does not save lives, Sybil. It's a CAR!
Define this 'pollution'.
which results in breathing problems and serious health consequences.
What 'pollution'??? Define this so-called 'pollution'. What is it polluting and what is the substance?
They remove all the terrible chemicals being belched out of ICE exhausts.
Chemicals are not 'terrible', Sybil. They simply exist.
Now...let's look at some of the typical chemicals emitted by both gasoline and EVs:
Mining lithium is most often done by the leachment method, requiring large amounts of sulfuric acid and water and several years to leach out the lithium from the raw ore. This improved ore is then shipped to China, where the further process the refined or into lithium metal. This is but one component of the lithium ion battery. NONE of this is necessary for gasoline cars.
Cobalt in large quantities only comes from a few areas, most notably the child slavery mines in Africa. This ore is then shipped to China for processing into batteries. NONE of this is necessary for gasoline cars.
Aluminum is mined as bauxite (aluminum oxide), shipped to aluminum smelters worldwide and smelted into aluminum metal and various useful alloys. This is required for both gasoline cars and EVs.
NONE of these are 'pollution' per se. They are simply chemicals, though sulfuric acid leaching of lithium often leaves large deposits of waste acidic sulfur in water starved areas (where lithium is typically found) AND requires large amounts of water.
EVs use about twice as much energy as a gasoline car, since that energy must be generated and transmitted long distances (most is lost due to waste heat); and generating that energy typically uses natural gas, coal, oil, etc. which must be burned. The results of this combustion is primarliy carbon dioxide (a naturally occurring gas essential to life on Earth) and water vapor (fresh water!). In some places, such as China, coal plants also put out a lot of soot (wasted fuel) that clouds their cities with black haze. This generation also produces waste heat (since such generators are heat engines).
Gasoline cars use about half the energy of EVs, since they burn the fuel directly to produce motion (and waste heat, being a heat engine)
So gasoline cars produce less carbon dioxide (which is not even a pollutant!) and water (which is not even a pollutant!).
They will end oil refineries that pollute huge areas of the planet.
A typical oil refinery is built on a few acres of land. They store their raw material and product in tanks and are VERY careful to keep the plant maintained (leaking oil or gasoline is dangerous!). Yes, they are noisy and they burn fuel to run the distillation process, but that is not pollution. Again, the exhaust is primarily carbon dioxide and water.
An oil refinery is not 'the planet', Sybil.
Your mindless chanting is right out of the Church of Green scripture.
The Church of Global Warming and the Church of the EV stem directly from the Church of Green.