Nickel will be needed for the steel to rebuild US bridges tothe Ukraine ! It looks like sanctions will be on for quite sometime even if the nightmare ended today !!!
In 2020, the world produced 88 thousand metric tons (MT) of lithium. To meet the projected demand increase from EVs, world production will need to reach 1.5 million MT by 2025. There are 200 mega-factories for battery production scheduled to be operating by 2030.