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Bolivia Holds Key To Lithium, The Battery Car Metal [1]

Minor metal lithium is set to charge ahead to become the top material for batteries and vital for electric transport, but supplying any spike in demand could be fraught with difficulties.

Bolivia, a poor but resource-rich country governed for the past three years by leftist Evo Morales, has about 50 percent of the world's lithium deposits at about 5.4 million tonnes.

Publication Date: 
15/04/2009
Michael Taylor [2]
Planet Ark (Australia) [3]
Tags:
Advanced Vehicle Technology [4], Electric [5], Zero Emissions Vehicles [6], Energy Efficiency [7], Batteries [8], Auto Industry [9], United Kingdom (UK) [10], Bolivia [11], London [12]
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