AFAIK the mineral reserve bottlenecks are cobalt and manganese, not lithium! | Hacker News

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		mansoor_ on Jan 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Does the world have enough lithium to move to elec... AFAIK the mineral reserve bottlenecks are cobalt and manganese, not lithium!

pfdietz on Jan 5, 2023 | [–]

Manganese is not a problem from resource availability. World reserves are 1.5 billion tonnes, and up to a trillion tonnes of manganese are available from seafloor nodules.

JumpCrisscross on Jan 5, 2023 | | [–]

Cobalt isn’t essential in the way lithium is. We already have working cobalt-free chemistries in EVs, e.g. LFP.

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