...this is how behind Australia is in the lithium industry.
...despite our close political relationship with Japan, Australia is not the location of choice.
...we don't have a national strategy, we seem only want to focus on digging ore from the ground.
Honda Motor will spend $11 billion to build out its electric-vehicle supply chain in Canada, with billions of dollars of financial aid from governments, per Bloomberg.
...this can only mean that over time, every continent would have their own EV supply chain within proximity, leaving Australia and perhaps South America as the only ones without a full EV supply chain supplying to a domestic EV producing industry serving its own EV market.
...simply because we are too small a market and too far from everyone else.
