How Scientists Just Found a Faster, Cleaner Way to Extract Lithium for EV Batteries The world's increasing reliance on electric vehicles has created an insatiable demand for lithium.
However, extracting this crucial battery ingredient has long been a dirty and wasteful business.
Companies have relied on solar evaporation ponds to extract lithium from underground brines, consuming vast amounts of water and land in arid regions. The environmental cost of this approach cannot be overstated.