He's changed his tune recently. It's everywhere, but in quality and form that is usable and feasible to extract, much more rare.

It's flowing through my veins as I type

A single Tesla battery (weighing 1,000 pounds) requires extracting and processing some 500,000 pounds of materials. At this rate, over the next 30 years, we will need to mine more mineral ores than humans have extracted over the last 70,000 years.

The title should be " Billionaire tries to Do anything to save his buisness even if he has to lie about it"

Elon: (I’m not lying) *giggles “It’s everywhere” (Don’t mention how hard it is to extract usable Lithium) *giggles “It’s in sea water” (they are buying my lies) *giggles

Everyone needs to look into the cobalt mines in the Congo. Lots of child labor, slavery, and starvation along with extreme toxicity of the cobalt they risking there lives for everyday

It's a 1% ore mineral. 100tones have to be dug up for one tonne. Not to mention the big spiral whole covering dozens of football fields to get to it. Meanwhile an oil derrick the size of a tennis court. Plus how many dead Africans per tonne of cobalt?

Yeah Nigeria rejected ur offer, n we love it.... Get it there in America

What about Cobalt mines in the Congo?

Mention the lithium pools and processing required after extracting it. That's where all of the fun is being avoided.

But what about cobalt ??? Cobalt is essential to lithium ion batteries. More than 70 percent of the world’s cobalt is produced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and 15 to 30 percent of the Congolese cobalt is produced by artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). For years, human rights groups have documented severe human rights issues in mining operations. These human rights risks are particularly high in artisanal mines in the DRC, a country weakened by violent ethnic conflict, Ebola, and high levels of corruption. Child labor, fatal accidents, and violent clashes between artisanal miners and security personnel of large mining firms are recurrent.

I’m not worried about finding lithium, I’m worried about the digging. Have you seen lithium mining? Not exactly environmentally friendly.

He is right. Lithium is more plentiful than lead, the material we have been using in batteries FOR THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS without running out. We are not going to stop making electric cars because of a lithium shortage.

Just like there’s gold everywhere

A Lithium car battery fire took Firemen 4 hours to extinguish it using 2,500 gallons of water; 5 Fire Engines; 1 water tender; 2 Fire Battalion Chiefs & 1 Hazmat Officer. They had to turn the vehicle on its side to access the lithium battery to put the fire out & cool the battery. China lost 50 EV buses in one fell swoop, because they all caught fire in a parking garage. The garage & house can catch on fire if an EV car is charging in the garage & sparks. It was an EV lithium all electric battery that caused the fire which sank an entire car carrier ship in the Atlantic. During the northern CA wildfires, PG&E shut the power off for a week so no one could charge their Teslas-unless they were able to use a gas-powered generator. Some EVs that were abandoned (because they weren’t able to charge them) caught on fire from the wildfires. They’re a life-threatening danger re/ evacuations because a Level 2 EV charge takes 8 hours to charge. How are you going to quickly evacuate when PG&E shuts the power off for a week? Lithium smoke is toxic and burns bright pink. Replacing a Tesla car battery costs $20,000 to $30,000.

It's still very hard to get out of the rock and to a state it can be used.

That was strangely vague considering he’s a “genius”. Lithium is everywhere , as is oil but there is a nasty process to extract lithium that can be used for power . This process destroys habitat and produces pollution.

He should have said something along the lines of: It’s hard to find a rock that doesn’t have Lithium in it, in fact the name lithium comes from the latin name for Rock.

Missing the point a bit. Yes there is loads of lithium, it’s processing the stuff that’s causing catastrophic damage. 2.2 million litres of water to produce one ton.

GOOGLE: What metal is better than lithium for batteries? Zinc-ion batteries use zinc ions instead of lithium ions to store and release energy. They are considered a promising alternative to lithium-ion batteries because zinc is abundant, low-cost, and environmentally friendly. Zinc-ion batteries are also more stable than lithium-ion batteries and have a longer lifespan. -Mar 24, 2023

Same with gold, but it's still hard to collect.

Other rare metals are also required.And its difficult to extract them

Switch to Sodium Ion batteries, Elon! They are cheaper, better for the environment, recharge in about 20 minutes, do not catch on fire. You lose chage density of about 80%. But a Tesla that recharges on 110 in 20 minutes, doesn't catch on fire, doesn't have reduced range in cold temps and has a range of 320 vs. 400 miles all for less money would be a winner. PS: VW is launching a Sodium Ion car this year.

Lithium is everywhere, but there are very few places in the world where it can be successfully extracted.

Those talking about cobalt mining tesla doesnt use cobalt anymore they are using lithium-iron-phosphate. Also they are recyclable

the energy to reduce lithium, a literal alkaline metal, from those kinds of compounds, is more of a problem than sourcing lithium itself. yall remember when aluminum was more expensive than gold until they found the bayer process?

Lithium is a Element, a metal. A salt is a ionic compound for example Lithium Citrate.

Sure, traces of lithium are everywhere. Concentrations of lithium expectable at a reasonable price is not, and the EPA and local groups don’t want their mountain dug up. If we had Oblivion sea extractors and didn’t care about the sea we’d have tons of lithium. Now do cobalt.

Not rare but difficult to extract

And it worked in J&K.😇

Bro forgot about the water contamination, endangerment of local aquatic animals, the harm to anyone’s health within 200 miles of the mining site and not to mention the millions that die mining it 💔 (I’m running a campaign to implicate water filtration systems with lithium mining if anyone’s interested)

This is the thing that boggles my mind: with how much people shill electric vehicles, (not naming names) they don't seem to know where the energy to charge their electric vehicle comes from. Now, riddle me this. How the fuck do you charge an electric battery? With fossil fuel generated energy. In very few places would it be charged by wind or solar. So basically, we're not helping the environment very much by driving electric vehicles. In some ways, we're harming it even more because as many people have pointed out, lithium mining. extraction is a very arduous, costly process that harms the ecosystem, not too different from oil. Also, the fumes emitted from the extraction are incredibly toxic to inhale. To top it all off, there's human rights violations committed to obtain the lithium necessary for the battery. And what's the payoff? We're mining for a mineral substance that harms the ecosystem, doesn't fully replace fossil fuels, emits toxic fumes when extracted from it's natural forms, and basically requires slave labor to maintain a Tesla's outlandish but not ungodly price.

Ronaldo: puts aside coke and water bottle .. picks up lithium salt solution

Lithium is mined in salt ponds similar to table salt, potassium chloride, epsom salt, and others.

This is the guy who said “We can coup whoever we want” - for lithium in Bolivia

There’s iron everywhere too but it’s not like you can take it away from everywhere

Hydrogen is extremely plentiful as well... 2/3 of every water molecule consists of Hydrogen and the Earth is 2/3 covered in water.... But that doesn't make it readily available to us, same goes for lithium....

Lithium is one ofvthe most common elements in existence

Guess what Elon, Gold is everywhere as well, it is even in all sea water. The issue with lithium is the way it is dispersed. It is never mined in high concentrations because while it is plentiful it doesn’t exist in reasonable concentration as to make it “green”. If you have to mine 100,000 lbs. to 500,000 pound of the earths crust for one battery powered vehicle well…….interestingly enough, fresh water use and colossal strip mines were the bane of all environmentalists 25 years ago and now that we are pushing EV’s, strip mines and gross water waste is LOVED by the greenies. Who’d have thunk that!😮

A new mining company, out of Canada (Max Power Mining), is about to destroy the Willcox Playa in southeastern Arizona, with a Lithium mine. This region already suffers from drought conditions, and there is a wildlife preserve right next door. Not to mention that there are people residing in the area. Please help Arizonans to stop this mine from being set up in the Willcox Playa. Thank you!

Like Libya 🇱🇾 Mr Musk, like the rest of Africa, I have seen some mines in Africa where people work in terrible conditions, mining lithium!!! You know exactly what I am talking about!

If lithium were an abundant source. then why is it so expensive? I believe lithium batteries a grossly over priced and purposely kept at a premium.

Let's not focus on the abundance of lithium, let's focus on the human beings that are mining it. Do a video on that Elon

You forgot to mention the rare element Cobalt.

So is gold but good luck extracting it from sea water in a way that makes money

Another point about mining ⛏️ the mineral deposits I want to make! So fossile fuel lobbies talk about the amount of carbon needed to dig up and get the deposits. Well even if they did give a fuk I want to point out it's where they are spewing the carbon that also matters! Typically where u mine there aren't schools filled with children or neighborhoods with pregnant women! Plus once fussion can be our main source of nuclear energy the process of recycling the lithium should be way way way faster!

Lithium is a metal , lithium citrate is salt

Yes it's everywhere, in tiny quantities. To get enough you have to rake the earth smash open rocks, build retention ponds with poisonous chemicals to separate it from other things it binds with like normal salt water

Lithium is NOT a salt

the problem is the pollution

Elon trying to drive down the Lithium prices - it is there but try and extract it and bring it to market ! For the Re odd I Love Elon but he needs cheaper batteries !

He's taking it right now!!! If it's everywhere it mist be there for a reason!!!

Sorry, lithium is not easy to recover, so far, with current technology, only about 15% - 20% of known lithium deposits are useable.

and so is gold... its everywhere... but at like 1 parts per million, or even less....

Sodium ion is the current answer. (You see what I did there…current lol). For real tho na+ is the solution to other types of chemistry.

Don't start me on hydrogen... Everywhere!!!

Yea petrol was alot too on this earth until everyone used it up and now its drying and everyone is turning to evs *aka lithium battery car* which will also lead to shortage of lithium in the next 20 years or so

This is a weird music video

Elon the best 👍😁

sure maybe everywhere but its in low concentrations and not profitable to extract. duh. he such a genius

What about cobalt? Is it everywhere?

Yeah it's 0.2 parts per million. So have fun filtering half the ocean to make your battery. Estimated cost of a new battery? About $2billion per car.

What about nickel????.

Yeah I sweat lithium and I shit lithium, lithium is on oxygen 😂

Lithium is metal.

That why they're trying to find something that's rare and expensive to produce the new generation of batteries 😂

Lithium is a metal.

10 billion liters of seawater can get u 1.4 tons of lithium

2:22 on the clock

yeah the process of extraction from salt-water (not sea-water) is totally going fine in chile. No problems at all. what a "genius"

And we should be generating electricity by hot salt lithium reactors. They're safe, efficient and could power the world for many hundreds of years.

Povthe morning brew when it hears thid

Yeah, except extracting it....

Yeah very plentiful even though the price of lithium is going up and Tesla’s using cheaper batteries for their cars. Why would they if lithium is plentiful? But once a Tesla battery dies then you literally can’t do anything with it. It’s not recyclable. Gas cars are not going anywhere lol

Everybody on the Internet should be on lithium!!

Facts anywhere you find salt you an find lithium

there's something called concentration and deposits. There's billions of tons of gold in sea water but there's no way you can extract it at the cost of current gold prices.

He's a supervillain

While he is right sodium is 1400 more times abundant than lithium and its in your food and safe and dont catch fire!!! Im prety sure he is talking about sodium!!!

Make the tesla 15k then. ? Somebody lying

Talking and chuckling while trying to make a serious statement...is obvious sign of LYING 🤥 🙄

It's not as plentiful as elon's BS!

Then leave Mexico alone !

That’s not the point! Mining is the problem

Electric vehicles will be easier to repair,more efficient,faster,cleaner more reliable...etc...

And 5.9 million found in India

Alright Genius ☑️🙏!! 🙏.. you are So RIGHT ☑️!!!! ELON.... 😊BLESSED 🙏🙏

And how much diesel does the machines use to mine lithium?

Pretty sure that's not what everyone is concerned about. The refining is bad for the environment no?

lithium is a salt….. umm no not really bud

Sodium ion battery is the future

Bipolares are hoots on that! Salt anymore 😂🎉

How hard is to extract though?

India is great

It might be plentiful but it's hard to extract it cost a lot of money

And I bet he does nothing about the children dying in the Congo cobolt mines. 😢😢

I think he needs his lithium adjusted.

And Cobalt?

What about those new batteries thats the future ... Nice one

Amazing that these "brilliant minds" never think things will run out? If we keep sucking out water, oil and minerals etc earth will be imploding like that Titan Sub😢