Yup, no problem. Like I said there's more of it than lead. A 100 kWh tesla will use <8 kg of lithium metal. NB you may see figures like 60-80 kg per car- tha

Yup, no problem. Like I said there's more of it than lead. A 100 kWh tesla will use <8 kg of lithium metal. NB you may see figures like 60-80 kg per car- that usually refers to lithium carbonate (or hydroxide), which is only 19% lithium. Anyway, 1 tonne of lithium metal can produce over 125 100 kWh electric cars. In 2012 the world produced 4.7 million tonnes of lead metal from mines[1]. If that were lithium, it would be enough for 588 million cars. In 2012 the world made 84 million cars[2], so there's a safety margin of over 7. And that's without even really trying to mine lead. 7.2 billion tonnes of coal are mined each year, almost 2000x more than lead. We would need to mine .0071% as much lithium as we do coal. [1] https://www.ila-lead.org/lead-facts/lead-production--statistics https://www.ila-lead.org/lead-facts/lead-production--statist... [2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/262747/worldwide-automobile-production-since-2000/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/262747/worldwide-automob...