OPEC is definitely an exception in that it stayed together even though there are multiple times when it wasn't clearly in any of the members' economic best inte

OPEC is definitely an exception in that it stayed together even though there are multiple times when it wasn't clearly in any of the members' economic best interests to participate or maintain the cartel's supply control. This is pretty obviously because it's a political rather than economic organization: the member states have political reasons for wanting to remain in control of the supply which probably exceed the rational reasons for pursuing revenue maximization. It seems unlikely that the countries with significant lithium reserves have enough in common politically, to maintain a similar cartel. Not that some might not try. But they will also have to deal with the fact that OPEC did it first, and major powers may be unlikely to allow that to be repeated.