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Can you please link to these prior two occasions you've asked me this question?

I have no recollection of ever having addressed you or being addressed by you before this interaction. (EDIT: we have had zero intersection in HN comments for at least 16 days.)

I suspect you've confused a user name.

Still, to address your question, for the very first time, there are reports of car companies in China, Japan and elsewhere being linked to third party forced labour practices - Toyota, for one example, made a comprehensive statement in 2021 to explain how they were acting to mitigate (ie minimise, reduce, limit) their existing exposure to Forced Labor of Migrant Workers and the Modern Slavery Acts. That 13 page statement is essentially a confession that Yes, they did rely on parts in the supply chain with a forced labour element and Yes, we will minimise this but it will likely be hard to entirely eliminate this.

If you like I can link to this statement, should you be unable to unable to find it yourself.

Would you now be kind enough to expand on your statement about the lithium supply chain and sensibly compare it to the environmental damages of the fossil fuel industry?