I love this Cumbia band!

But seriously, another brilliant story Ricky, thanks for posting it.

If you would like to know the change that will happen to this, after we move to solar indexed stimulus, thus incentivising and empowering domestic and community based solar hydrogen, as will be necessary to revive aerospace, it will quickly be found that all EVs can be easily converted to hydrogen, therefore removing / reducing the need for grids to support EV charging stations, whilst propagating the benefits of widespread hydrogen use, as a functional replacement for fossil fuels, whilst all of it reverses entropy - the opposite of what we did by fossil fuels and other extracted energy sources.

The widespread benefits include things like air and water filtration and circulation, and even creation of human consumable food (See "Solein").

So I think the run of EVs, and thus exploitation of the planet for lithium will be short lived, personally.

All that money they think they are going to make won't be possible, because the energy in profit has to manifest directly as temperature rise, and we are already redlining temperature with respect to the flashpoint of forest fires, they will hit a brick wall in the environment, which will slam all efforts to make further profit, beyond this year or next.

This is why I say the money issuers should act now, before too much more value (Energy) is lost from money, to cut short the pain we will go through, if the environment really starts to kick hard, which it absolutely will if they can't see sense.