Lithium is mined in a variety of places like Australia, Chile, Argentina, China, etc[0]. Not a whole lot of lithium production in the US, although there are sig

Lithium is mined in a variety of places like Australia, Chile, Argentina, China, etc[0]. Not a whole lot of lithium production in the US, although there are significant lithium reserves in the US. I would assume Tesla/Panasonic gets their lithium from all of these places. Very recently Tesla agreed to start buying lithium in Nevada[1] which is also where the new battery factory will be. [0] http://www.thestreet.com/story/12758999/1/2013-top-8-lithium-producing-countries.html http://www.thestreet.com/story/12758999/1/2013-top-8-lithium... [1] http://fortune.com/2015/09/16/tesla-lithium-gigafactory-nevada/ http://fortune.com/2015/09/16/tesla-lithium-gigafactory-neva...