By 2030, global demand for lithium is expected to exceed two million metric tons of lithium carbonate equivalent, more than double the projected demand for 2025, according to data from analytics firm Statista. Increases in demand for batteries for electric vehicles will be a strong driver of lithium consumption in the next decade.
And just as our great national electric company was born @CFEmx ; so in this @GobiernoMX of the #4T the state company “Lithium for Mexico” will be created.
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August 10, 2022
In May 2021, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that the Mexican state was considering “assuming a more important role” in lithium production, arguing that companies were using mining concessions for speculation, rather than extracting the metal. .
In Mexico there are 36 lithium mining projects, all of them financed with foreign capital and controlled by 10 companies, according to data from the Comprehensive System on Mining Economy and the Ministry of Economy.
López Obrador warned last October that No more concessions will be granted to exploit lithium deposits in Mexico. Companies that were granted a concession in previous years will have to demonstrate that they have actually invested in exploration and exploitation work in order to keep it.
With information from Diana Nava and Ivet Rodríguez