Quote Originally Posted by Wheels View Post
Maybe because China has cornered the market on lithium and may soon have access to the world's biggest deposits in Afghanistan.
I'm not sure that's true. Here's the largest known reserves of Lithium [[not sure how that equates to current mining)....

Where is lithium available from?
With 8 million tons, Chile has the world’s largest known lithium reserves. This puts the South American country ahead of Australia [[2.7 million tons), Argentina [[2 million tons) and China [[1 million tons). Within Europe, Portugal has smaller quantities of the valuable raw material. The total global reserves are estimated at 14 million tons. This corresponds to 165 times the production volume in 2018.