The world is hungry for lithium and growing ever more ravenous. In a market quickly becoming insatiable, Julian Ford, CEO of Riversgold Ltd (ASX:RGL),.
In 2020, around three million electric vehicles were sold, up from 2.2 million in 2019. But that increase dwarfs in comparison to growth in EV sales last.
Around 16 million electric cars are on the road worldwide, consuming 30 TWh of electricity per year, equivalent to all the electricity generated in Ireland
2021 was a good year for the electric car. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis from the International Energy Agency (IEA), which said that electric vehicle sales more than doubled in 2021 from the year before, rising from three million to 6.6 million cars sold and accounting for nearly nine percent of the global car market.