lithium boom expectations, page-7

"Just China alone, "Between 2002 and 2007, China's national automobile market grew by an average 21 percent, or one million vehicles year-on-year. In 2006, China’s vehicle production capacity successively exceeded six, then seven million, and in 2007, China produced over eight million automobiles.^[7] In 2009, China produced 13.79 million automobiles, of which 8 million were passenger cars and 3.41 million were commercial vehicles and surpassed the United States as the world's largest automobile producer by volume. In 2010, both sales and production topped 18 million units, with 13.76 million passenger cars delivered, in each case the largest by any nation in history.^[8] In 2014, total vehicles production in China reached 23.720 million, accounting for 26% of global automotive production." Wiki

Last years it was 24.5 Million vehicles, 90% or more were passenger vehicles, add to that more than 20 million Ebikes per year and just China alone will soon be accounting for a major slab of the worlds Lithium supply.