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Re:Tesla's head of battery engineering exits by rsynnott on Monday November 06, 2017 @06:10PM (#15639803)
Current world production is only 36,000 tonnes per year. Chile alone has 7.5 million tonnes known reserves. So 200 years of current requirements, known, in one country.

And the lithium doesn’t just go away. Lithium batteries can be recycled, though in practice it is currently often cheaper to just mine more lithium.

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Re:Tesla's head of battery engineering exits by starky on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @12:23AM (#15641230)
The values I heard some years ago (~10) was that there were well over 1000 years of known lithium reserves even when assuming some truly impressive rates of electric vehicle production and zero recycling.
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Re:Tesla's head of battery engineering exits by leggomylibro on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @02:47AM (#15641642)
Coolio, so we just have to scale up? Phew!
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