Good old fireside chat, page-11458

it’s highly doubtful the lithium markets are under pressure now give the amount of product available and the fact the Musk mas mentioned many times in his press releases that he is building a vertical integration model so his not at the mercy of the markets volatile prices for Lithium, Nickel, Manganese and so on, secondly 60% of batteries are now being recycled and the new stage tesla battery packs are using less lithium than 10 years ago and more graphite which could be synthetically manufactured, also many other battery manufactures are already building much quicker charge times and more efficient batteries than Li-ion batteries.GLTA