Chris Doornbos started turning his attention to lithium, the third-lightest element, in 2014 after he became fascinated by Tesla’s growing popularity. “Elon Musk was the first one to make the electric car sexy,” Doornbos said. He looked at the automaker’s use of the silver-white alkali metal in lithium-ion batteries and realized that the world was soon going to need more of it.

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