question about the brilliant marketing minds at genmever heard of aqueous batteries ? no ? they're making leaps and bounds in progress.
essentially, water takes the place of lithium.
https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiR2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnNjaWVuY2VkaXJlY3QuY29tL3NjaWVuY2UvYXJ0aWNsZS9hYnMvcGlpL1MyNDA1ODI5NzI0MDAwNzEw0gEA?hl=en-CA&gl=CA&ceid=CA%3Aen
guess what the core ingredient is ? right ... palladium ...
do you think that a mining company sitting on a lode of Pd may want to share that news about
aqueous batts ?
... instead of spending their entire marketing effort hoping that the EV market collapses so they can sell palladium through tailpipes ? \
.. idjits ...