The largest miner of Lithium in the world is Chile. The largest supplier of Lithium is Australia.
Try looking up stuff like this on Google, rather than listening to the family of raccoons living in your head.
Chile, and Northern Argentina (Jujuy Provence, especially). There have been some pretty massive demonstrations by the locals (some of the few indigenous groups left after colonization) because they don’t want their water stolen and polluted for the sake of cell phone batteries (as they called it)
eta: @limey, here’s what I read the other day, I’m sure there’s more out there:
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I just know from what I have read. Not involved in mining. I want our country beholden to no one. Granted a little over 200. But please let us make it well.
What did you read that told you it was China?
Forbes, I’m sure.
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Is that a Tesla-only thing? What I read of the article didn’t mention any other make/model
Don’t know. Since they seem to think it’s the batteries I’m assuming it’s inherent in all EVs and Tesla, being by far the most common, are the ones they know about.
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Or maybe Tesla drivers are the only ones foolish enough to drive into a river.
“the car did it”
It must be a human error, Dave.
It’s a good job that Elon doesn’t go around telling his customers that his truck can operate “temporarily as a boat”. Eh? Oh.
Temporarily as a boat and then more permanently as a Viking funeral.
FWIW, Lithium-ion batteries also contain cobalt which mostly comes from Chinese owned mines in the DRC.
AKA the Lords of Cobalt.
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I didn’t know that Musk is Jewish.
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Nothing burnishes your anti-Semetic credentials like accusing the Jews of trying to take you down.
I’ve been doing some noodling on this subject. As you may know, I have been eying the end of my current lease (mid-2024) to get an EV, or sooner if a deal is available. But EVs are still in limited supply - meaning that dealers continue to be able to charge MSRP at least - and non-premium models even more scarce. Interest rates are way up too, and show no sign of dropping in my purchase window.
At the same time, I am basically doing zero miles a week on my current car. If I go out, it’s by Uber so, otherwise, I’m driving to the store and back and that’s it. What would be the point of buying an EV, even a cheap one, just to park it gathering dust in the place I currently park my ICE car to gather dust?
Here’s where my mind is going: get an e-bike.
Almost everything can be delivered these days. My doctor, dentist, pharmacy, vet and liquor store are all within about 2 miles of my house. If I’m doing anything that needs a car, I can just rent one.
I have tried going without a car once before, but I was working in an office at that time, and the cost of commuting by Uber was not enough of a saving to justify the loss of convenience. But we’re in a post-COVID world now and I work from home; my company has actually got rid of the Houston office, so there’s no going back in that regard. e-bikes weren’t really a thing back then either.
I can get a really nice e-bike for the equivalent of 3 car payments, and that’s before the 30% e-bike tax credit. After that, I’ll be looking at a handful of additional Ubers a month and a handful of car rentals a year vs. no car payment or insurance payment. Really tempting…
Out of curious, have you considered just a regular old foot-powered bike?
You’re talking to Limey. Regular? Old? HAHAHAHAHA
He’s going to rig up some shit where he can charge the ebike over bluetooth.
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I’m too old for that shit. I’m looking at a bike with a carbon belt drive that doesn’t have all that derailleur gubbins, doesn’t require greasing and doesn’t have a chain that can break. Just hop on and go.