{"id":215921,"date":"2025-06-14T14:07:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T19:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/lithium-supply-will-fall-short-of-growing-electric-vehicle-demand-through-2029-analysis-finds"},"modified":"2025-06-14T14:07:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T19:07:41","slug":"lithium-supply-will-fall-short-of-growing-electric-vehicle-demand-through-2029-analysis-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/lithium-supply-will-fall-short-of-growing-electric-vehicle-demand-through-2029-analysis-finds","title":{"rendered":"Lithium supply will fall short of growing electric vehicle demand through 2029, analysis finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a study published<\/a> in Cell Reports Sustainability<\/i>, researchers conducted the most comprehensive analysis to date on lithium supply and demand in China, Europe, and the U.S. Despite the fact that domestic lithium production in some of these regions could grow as much as 10 times by 2030, it would still fall short of the soaring demand for electric vehicles (EVs) without expanding imports or technological innovation.<\/p>\n

\u201cLithium today is as important as gasoline in the industrial revolution<\/a>,\u201d says author Qifan Xia of East China Normal University in Shanghai. \u201cWhile lithium<\/a> reserves are substantial around the world, they are distributed unevenly across different countries. So, we were interested in whether the major EV markets could be self-sufficient.\u201d<\/p>\n

Together, China, Europe and the U.S. account for 80% of the world\u2019s EV sales, and their demand is expected to increase further. The team estimated that China might need up to 1.3 million metric tons of lithium carbonate equivalent\u2014a standard measure of lithium content\u2014to produce new EVs. Europe might require 792,000 metric tons, followed by 692,000 metric tons for the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a study published in Cell Reports Sustainability, researchers conducted the most comprehensive analysis to date on lithium supply and demand in China, Europe, and the U.S. Despite the fact that domestic lithium production in some of these regions could grow as much as 10 times by 2030, it would still fall short of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}