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The falling price of lithium, he said, “is going to promote E.V. sales.” Dr. Sun thinks prices could fall much further because demand for the metal has not risen as fast as some in the industry expected.There is a wide range of opinion on what has caused the recent drop in prices and on how much lithium will cost in the coming months and years. Some analysts said the falling price of lithium was caused by short-term factors like slowing sales growth in Europe and China after subsidies for electric car purchases expired. But other industry experts said the drop suggested that new mines and processing plants were solving the lithium problem sooner than many analysts had thought was possible.
