The demand for electric vehicles is skyrocketing. Can the supply of lithium and other critical minerals for batteries keep up?
Payne Institute Faculty Fellow Ian Lange contributes to this article about how if the world wants to replace all its gas-burning cars and trucks with cleaner electric vehicles, it will have to dig up rocks. A lot of rocks. Demand for EVs is soaring in many parts of the globe, and a wave of domestic policies will send it skyrocketing in the U.S. soon. The batteries that power all those EVs need minerals — cobalt, nickel, graphite and, in particular, lithium — and the race is now on to mine and process enough of them. October 4, 2022.