Lithium Mine Investments Aren't Keeping Up with the EV Supply Chain

27 May 2022 | Abstracted from QZ

"...battery materials consultancy Benchmark Minerals calculates that the downstream of EV supply chain is growing at twice the pace of upstream mining and processing. 'Something drastic needs to happen to close this gap if one of the key pillars of the [energy transition] is to exist at scale...'

"Though the US has one of the world's richest lithium resources, it only has one lithium mine in operation accounting for under 2% of global production."

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