Frontiers Tracing of lithium supply and demand bottleneck
Insufficient supply of domestic lithium ore lithium inventory and import and export are the key reasons for the pressure on lithium supply and demand in the new energy vehicle industry; 3 By the end of 2019 the cumulative scrap lithium batteries in new energy vehicles contain about 10 000 tons all kinds of lithium battery unit storage
The Dynamic Evolution of the Material Flow of
Lithium which is the lightest metal element in the world has an average concentration of 20 ppm in Earth s continental crust; thus it is more abundant than some of the better known metals including tin and silver Bradley and Jaskula 2014 However lithium resources including ore mineral and brine deposits are unevenly distributed and only a