> there literally isn't enough lithium on earth to support the electric car market and lithium ion batteries are soon going to become prohibitively expensive.

> there literally isn't enough lithium on earth to support the electric car market and lithium ion batteries are soon going to become prohibitively expensive. Probably not true. Check out this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14922104 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14922104 Particularly the analysis provided by hwillis.