A shortfall in lithium would be an obstacle for government and industry plans to ramp up sales to tens of millions of electric vehicles a year. It is fueling political conflict over resources and complaints about the environmental cost of extracting them.
BEIJING (AP) Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure “white gold” in a politically and environmentally fraught competition from China to Nevada to Chile. General Motors Co. and the parent company of China’s BYD Auto Ltd. went straight to the source […]
BEIJING (AP) Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure “white gold” in a politically and environmentally f.
Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure white gold in a politically and environmentally fraught competition from China to Nevada to Chile.
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