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JB Straubel Has a Fix for the Battery Problem

26 Feb 2025 | Abstracted from Time

"...we will need to mine more metals like lithium and cobalt than have been extracted in all of human history...but Straubel thinks we won't have enough materials to supply them, not to mention that nearly all the world's facilities to process those materials are in Asia...a gargantuan facility outside Reno...will process new minerals, recycled batteries, and manufacturing scrap into enough copper foil and powdery, mineral-rich cathode active material to build batteries for about 1 million electric cars a year by 2025."

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