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Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by csours on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @10:12PM (#32091205)
I believe government incentives and regulations will have a huge effect on the speed of adoption in a country, and China and Europe have both of those. I don't think mineral extraction will have much effect on locality. Shipping is pretty cheap - we already move oil to refineries and gasoline to filling stations.

GM does have a >> “strategic investment and commercial collaboration” with Controlled Thermal Resources (CTR) to procure lithium from Southern California’s Salton Sea

https://www.hagerty.com/media/news/gm-ctr-lithium-partnershi...

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Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment by Gibbon1 on Thursday July 14, 2022 @03:19AM (#32092988)
A while back I looked at raw materials for batteries. You can see the big push to get away from batteries that use cobalt. Because that is the one input that is actually supply limited. Everything else but lithium is tapping into an already huge production capacity.
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