Let’s redirect EV discussion from battery viability and charging infrastructure to lithium, cobalt, nickel, and REE production, availability, and which countries hold majority stockpile of these strategic metals. Nothing else matters until strategic metal sustainability is secured.

Batteries can’t be produced without strategic metals. Does the United States have enough domestically, or are we dependent on foreign relations stability to sustain projected demand? China controls over 50% of lithium production and reserves in the world, including mining properties in ally country Australia. And China’s domestic ore deposits are nearly untapped of full potential, and China doesn’t restrict mining like the US of A environmental restrictions do.

And are we willing to trade one environmental concern for another environmental concern, namely allowing large scale mining of lithium in the US of A in trade for doing away with gas cars? We can’t have both, this is not debatable, this is reality.

This is the discussion at the front that is being ignored. My trade and training is mineralogy, geochemistry, and mineral material extraction.