where does most of the world's lithium come from
Lithium As of 2015, most of the world's lithium production is in South America, where lithium-containing brine is extracted from underground pools and concentrated by solar evaporation. The standard extraction technique is to evaporate water from brine. Each batch takes from 18 to 24 months.[82]
Tesla, Inc. The Tesla Roadster (2008) was the first production automobile to use lithium-ion battery cells and the first production EV with a range greater than 200 mi (320 km) per charge.[15] Between 2008 and March 2012, Tesla sold more than 2,250 Roadsters in 31 countries.[16][17][18] Tesla stopped taking orders for the Roadster in the U.S. market in August 2011.[19]