Europe's Lithium Problem Is Not Geology. It Is Paperwork.
The continent has enough lithium in the ground to supply its battery plants. Getting permission to dig it up takes, on average, eleven years.

The continent has enough lithium in the ground to supply its battery plants. Getting permission to dig it up takes, on average, eleven years.

Three new fabrication plants are rising in Saxony. The engineers to run them are harder to find than the subsidies that paid for them.
