Sunshine (she/her)@piefed.caM to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 days agoAre there any battery banks manufactured-in-europe?message-squaremessage-square4linkfedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down10
arrow-up146arrow-down1message-squareAre there any battery banks manufactured-in-europe?Sunshine (she/her)@piefed.caM to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square4linkfedilink
minus-squareB0rax@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·3 days agoYou mean power banks to charge your phone? Most lithium cells will be manufactured in China, mainly because that is where lithium can be found geographically.
minus-squareTWeaK@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·3 days agoI’m pretty sure lithium can be found in plenty of other places, it’s just that lithium mines aren’t established for them. I remember reading stories about large lithium deposits being found in Europe. Apparently Australia actually extracts the vast majority of the world’s lithium, roughly twice that of China: https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/the-worlds-lithium-is-mined-in-just-a-handful-of-countries
You mean power banks to charge your phone?
Most lithium cells will be manufactured in China, mainly because that is where lithium can be found geographically.
I’m pretty sure lithium can be found in plenty of other places, it’s just that lithium mines aren’t established for them. I remember reading stories about large lithium deposits being found in Europe.
Apparently Australia actually extracts the vast majority of the world’s lithium, roughly twice that of China: https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/the-worlds-lithium-is-mined-in-just-a-handful-of-countries