Also arent cell phones still using up lithium and cobalt for their batteries as well? That finite resource will become scarce before long creating a total clusterf=ck
well right now its not scarce but my point was there’s only so much annual capability of lithium battery production and its what all companies who use them have to draw from.
there is no major recycling efforts in place for mineral recovery from old batteries, and the logistics to get lithium from unconventional sources economically and at a pace to be useful aren’t in existence either
so annual minimg capacities are something that pits all li-ion battery company users against each other, they all draw from the one same source