Massive Lithium Deposit at California’s Salton Sea Could Power Millions of Electric Vehicles Each Year: Study

The Salton Sea in Southern California could produce enough lithium to power millions of electric vehicles each year, scientists said. About an hour’s drive south of Palm Springs, the shallow, briny lake—dubbed “Lithium Valley”—contains enough of the battery mineral to help meet the growing national demand for electric batteries in cars, phones, and other devices. “It’s among the largest brine deposits of lithium in the world,” the study’s co-author Michael McKibben, a geochemist at the University of California, Riverside, told The Epoch Times. “Once they reach maximum production, they could be producing enough lithium for 10 million electric vehicles per year.”...