Another own goal, this time by the entire Western world, is how complacent we've been in allowing China to dominate the lithium-ion battery supply chain - most refined battery materials come from China, something that's going to take years to reverse. Nevertheless, in Europe, as elsewhere, the fight-back has begun. Trafigura, one of the world's biggest commodity traders recently inked a deal to supply lithium to British junior Green Lithium which is constructing a lithium processing plant in England.
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