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BEIJING--Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure “white gold” in a politically and environmentally fraught competition from China to Nevada to Chile.

Is it a richcession? Or a rolling recession? Or maybe no recession at all?

9 killed, including 3 children, as Russian missile slams into pizza restaurant in east Ukraine city

Death toll rises to 8 in Russian attack on a restaurant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk

9 killed, including 3 children, as Russian missile slams into pizza restaurant in east Ukraine city

Ukraine accuses local man of directing missile strike that killed 10 at popular pizza restaurant

The race is on for "white gold."

Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the mineral in a politically and environmentally fraught competition.

A shortfall in lithium supplies would be an obstacle for plans to ramp up sales to tens of millions of electric vehicles a year.