And the bad news...16,000,000 tons of lithium known reserves on the planet earth. Largest known deposit is in Chile. Only known resource in the US is Nevada brine well. My guess is domestic production is 2000 tons a year. At least I know my fuel injected vehicles can run on 25% ethanol.
Reference link below for source:
https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/p...2018-lithi.pdf