Solid-state EV batteries without expensive lithium made possible by magnesium conductivity breakthrough - NotebookCheck.net News
Manganese, nickel, silicon are main focus of battery research - MINING.COM
Elon Musk announces Tesla is working on new manganese battery cell - Electrek
This sort of says it all....Manganese, Nickel and Silicon are probably going to be the future combination...
At very large scale, we need tens, maybe hundreds of millions of tons ultimately. So the materials used to produce these batteries at a very large scale need to be common materials or you can’t scale.” ....well said!
I also like this tidbit about Canada....
Geography: Canada’s potential
Over the past 20 years, the highest patent activity for improvements to, or new battery chemistries was registered in Japan with over 14,000 applications, the US with over 6,700, Korea with over 6,500, and China with about 1,400. However, other countries seem to be emerging and could point to potential growth for battery companies.
“We have already seen a boom of gigafactory announcements in Germany driven by Tesla, CATL and others, but in the top list we also see Canada,” the whitepaper reads. “Canada has a great potential for developing battery production facilities given its resource production capacities. Recently the Canadian government announced plans to build an electric vehicle battery plant.”