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by mansoor_ 1258 days ago
AFAIK the mineral reserve bottlenecks are cobalt and manganese, not lithium!
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pfdietz 1258 days ago
Manganese is not a problem from resource availability. World reserves are 1.5 billion tonnes, and up to a trillion tonnes of manganese are available from seafloor nodules.
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JumpCrisscross 1258 days ago
Cobalt isn’t essential in the way lithium is. We already have working cobalt-free chemistries in EVs, e.g. LFP.
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