Rescue for the electric car construction: A huge lithium treasure slumbers under the Rhine. The deposit is large enough for millions of vehicle batteries.
Karlsruhe – Lithium plays the key role in battery construction for e-mobility. Europe's largest lithium treasure has now been discovered in the 300-kilometer-long and up to 40-kilometer deep Upper Rhine Rift between Basel and Frankfurt am Main.
E-car: Europe's largest lithium treasure lies under the Rhine
In the middle of Germany, material for millions of electric cars could be obtained – and the Upper Rhine Valley could become the number 1 lithium producer in Europe.
As reported by Kreiszeitung.de *, a German start-up has developed a special geothermal process that is now supposed to retrieve the treasure from the Rhine from thousands of meters below the surface. * Kreiszeitung.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
