65% of lithium batteries come from China. No country has more than 20% of oil output

Any American lithium battery manufacturers?

Well aint that some shh!t. As I recall, China also makes the majority of our medicine.

Our politicians need to get their a$$ in gear.

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The green revolution of “renewable energy” requires massive amounts of rare earth materials to produce the equipment/technology. China controls over 80% of the world’s rare earth materials sources/production. Thanks EO Joe!

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South America has some of the largest untapped reserves of lithium on the planet.

The dirty secret here is that any sort of battery production is going to produce a lot of hazardous waste. The reason most of this stuff is done in China is because they don't care about environmental issues like in the West.

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Any American lithium battery manufacturers?

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plug power, not a lithium battery

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Plug Power Inc. is an American company engaged in the development of hydrogen fuel cell systems that replace conventional batteries in equipment and vehicles powered by electricity. The company is headquartered in Latham, New York, and has facilities in Spokane, Washington, and Rochester, New York. Plug Power's GenDrive system integrates fuel cells manufactured by both Plug Power and Ballard Power Systems and incorporates a hydrogen storage system that allows the system to "recharge" in a matter of minutes as opposed to several hours for lead-acid batteries. It allows hydrogen-powered forklifts to run at a constant steady power compared to conventional batteries, which experience "droop" in their output towards the end of a shift. GenDrive units occupy the same space designed for conventional batteries.

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Is that "processed/assembled" or all in from China. I thought Chile had like 60% of the worlds lithium production/reserves. China and Canada being next but combining for about half of Chile. So i could see mining in Chile and shipping to China then shipping to the US/EU. Etc ( yeah....environmental savings that process)

and Chile just installed a socialist bent government; so, it will be interesting what the US left thinks of their favorite governmemtal panacea (socialism) if/when their favorite climate panacea is screwed up by those socialist government policies

China has slightly more in lithium deposits than the US. Australia has twice as much and Chile has eight times as much as China.
BTW, Joe Biden is not responsible for the amount of lithium distributed world-wide.
And I know what many of you on this site are thinking: No, neither is Hunter Biden.

Member when the green fricks (Al Gore) was pushing these:



"The compact fluorescent lamp, that controversial spiral light bulb, had a moment in a spotlight of its own creation, but that moment has passed. General Electric, one of the three traditional major lighting brands, published a literal Dear John letter this week announcing that it is dumping the CFL in favor of light-emitting diodes. The spiral CFL is, for now, still a cultural symbol of the green movement. It just isn’t considered a good technological bet going forward because LEDs are getting way cheaper."

I get the feeling the "electric" car with have a similar fate. But the a-hole politicians will make their money while fricking the country.

There's a lot of lithium ion battery production in Korea as well.

I honestly wouldn't be all that worried about this. There are a lot of places in the world where you can mine the materials (the U.S. is #2 in proven reserves), and it's not an especially difficult or value-added manufacturing process. China has a large share because it's relatively cheap to do so there, not because they have an engineering or natural resource advantage.

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Member when the green fricks (Al Gore) was pushing these:

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I seem to remember hearing a story about a woman breaking one of those. Something along the lines of she broke it, knew there was mercury in it, so she called a testing and abatement company to take care of it. In the end, it cost her a couple grand to get it cleaned up

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Nearly 65% of lithium-ion batteries come from China. By comparison, no single country produces more than 20% of global crude oil output.'

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But what is the distribution of reserves or lodes of lithium around the globe? I don't know the answer, but think that's more important than who currently manufactures the batteries.