Damn, you're right. Thanks for pointing that out. Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to edit my earlier post. That changes some of the numbers substantial

Damn, you're right. Thanks for pointing that out. Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to edit my earlier post. That changes some of the numbers substantially. Cost of lithium salts at 2015 prices to sustain full Gigafactory production becomes about $USD 340 million/year, rather than the $USD 20 million/year I initially calculated. The figures about volume of supply, demand and reserves, stand. Sometimes I think it would be worth putting in "dummy parameter" units to stop mistakes like this from happening with dimensionless ratios. Anyway, thanks again for pointing that out.