The automotive fleet is gradually changing from internal combustion to hybrid and electric engines. This is fostered by the European policies concerning the need of reduction in pollutant emissions and in the improving of urban air quality. Currently most of the analyses carried out focus on the comparison of the emissions related to the different typologies of cars and on the CO2 emission cut generated by the consumption of electricity produced from renewable sources in the use phase of the car. The proposed approach wants to investigate the need of raw materials in future scenarios of electric technology penetration in the urban vehicle fleet. Focusing on the Italian urban vehicle situation and considering the current technology used for the electric batteries and the recharging systems, the study account for the raw materials needed for different penetration scenarios of the electric mobility, adopting a Life Cycle Thinking perspective. The authors have been beyond a mere quantification of the primary materials required for the progressive electrification of the urban fleet, evaluating the raw materials availability from a market perspective and defining the limiting factor among three basic material of the current electric technologies (lithium, graphite and manganese). Therefore this work, starting from an evaluation of the material needed for different electric mobility penetration scenarios in the Italian urban fleet, wants to highlight the market dynamics especially for 3 primary materials widely required in the electric mobility focusing also on the possibility offered by a transition to a circular economy, investigating the green mining potential available for these materials both for their recovering in the same technology and in others fields.