Renewable energy, demand for minerals and law of unintended consequences

We all know that the world is now trying to move towards more environment-friendly technologies. It may be a bit late, but the move is towards renewables to produce electricity and towards Electric Vehicles (EVs) instead of fossil fuel burning vehicles.

We have made some progress and now aim to make more with many countries mandating that a certain percentage of energy would come from renewables over X number of years with similar targets for EVs as percentage of total new vehicles.