Many are sweating how we are going to supply enough lithium to meet the demands of a growing number of electric vehicles. This number needs to expand hugely over the next few decades to reduce our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from burning petroleum products.
The supply of lithium is not a critical issue currently, and there are many alternative sources of this abundant element, as I found out in several articles that I came across lately, thus this post.
The US has always had a copious supply of lithium at hand. An epic case of bad timing is one way to characterize the supply problem. Lithium mining in the US dwindled down to practically zero by the early 2000s, just when the newborn EV industry was beginning to send demand skyrocketing.