The Story of China’s Jump on the U.S. in the Lithium Triangle

The first thing to know is that Chinese companies have shown up in Argentina

Steve LeVine
The Mobilist
Published in
4 min readApr 9, 2021

--

Photo: Shutterstock

Last month, the CEO of China’s Jiankang Auto showed up in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires to follow up on a big deal he had signed — for an ongoing supply of battery-grade lithium for China’s insatiable electric vehicle…

--

--

Steve LeVine
The Mobilist

Editor at Large, Medium, covering the turbulence all around us, electric vehicles, batteries, social trends. Writing The Mobilist. Ex-Axios, Quartz, WSJ, NYT.