Carmakers around the world are looking for alternative materials or technologies that do not rely on raw materials currently used more. The reason is that most electric cars or plug-in hybrid next-generation, such as the Leaf Nissan, the Chevrolet Volt, Honda Insight and Toyota Prius, rely on batteries rare metals such as lithium, whose extraction occurs mainly in China, a country that has been shown to be able to "dictate" in the field.A recent international report shows that disruption of the supply of such material to Japan, Europe and the U.S. has caused a sort of panic in the automotive industry (and beyond), so that they prompted many manufacturers to seek new solutions. In short, behind Toyota, for example, would be investing large sums of money in research and development of new technologies that can remedy the lithium can prevent an entire country, Japan, fall prey to the cheap blackmail of neighboring China.
Jana Hartline, environmental communications head of Toyota said that "it is something we need to be fronted as hybrid and electric cars are rapidly entering the assembly."
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