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		panick21_ on Oct 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: $1.5B lithium deposit discovered in Maine; excavat... Just to be clear, it leaves as hydroxide to Japan or Korea mostly. > It’s actually really crazy but your green vehicle battery has to go from Australia to China to Japan to Nevada just to got one more place for final assembly. And then might get delivered back to Australia or Britain or whatever. This is also why one of Musk major focus on Battery Day was 'how far does a battery atom have to travel' is a major measure of success for them.

SV_BubbleTime on Oct 27, 2021 [–]

Ah, gotcha!

> And then might get delivered back to Australia or Britain or whatever.

Man, aluminum bugs me for that. Australia to China to Iceland to China to USA as some “fancy” case for landfill electronics at Walmart.

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