Solid-state EV batteries without expensive lithium made possible by magnesium conductivity breakthrough - NotebookCheck.net News
Manganese, nickel, silicon are main focus of battery research - MINING.COM
Elon Musk announces Tesla is working on new manganese battery cell - Electrek
This sort of says it all....Manganese, Nickel and Silicon are probably going to be the future combination...
At very large scale, we need tens, maybe hundreds of millions of tons ultimately. So the materials used to produce these batteries at a very large scale need to be common materials or you can’t scale.” ....well said!