Potentially the world's largest lithium deposit has been found in a US volcano
What just happened? What is likely to be the world's largest deposit of lithium has been discovered in a volcano crater along the Nevada-Oregon border. It's estimated that the McDermitt Caldera holds between 20 million and 40 million metric tons, which would be larger than the current 21-million-ton record-holding deposit beneath the salt flats of Bolivia
https://www.techspot.com/news/100117-potentially-world-largest-lithium-deposit-has-found-us.html
that's not significant.... the average tesla car needs around 1200 lbs of lithium... the high performance cars need 1800-2000 lbs of batteries. large OTR semi's and other large trucks use between 8000-16000 lbs of batteries... that's 4 -8 tons per vehicle.... all that lithium needs to be refined to make batteries and will be enough for maybe 20 million cars at most... or around 1 million large trucks at most.... people don't realize how much those batteries weigh. if you doubt it... just to to tire stores like Tire Rack and they have tires specifically for ev's because of the excess weight of those cars based on the tire sizes.
This is around the weight of the whole battery pack, of which only a small fraction is lithium.
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The average car battery has about 20 lbs. of lithium, you're only off by 1,180 lbs..