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Originally Posted by Fat Abe
I fear that Kobo was not that careful about whom they chose to manufacture their readers. There is an American company (Albemarle) that could have supplied the maker with higher quality lithium (both for purity and energy capacity), but Kobo chose not to use them.
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An interesting claim. Considering that Albemarle does not sell batteries but rather lithium for use in manufacturing batteries, how do you know which lithium supplier is used by any manufacturer? As for higher quality lithium? That would likely depend on the people refining the lithium from the various sources. The majority of lithium mining seems to produce LiAl(Si₂O₆) (spodumene concentrate), LiOH (lithium hydroxide) and Li₂CO₃ (lithium carbonate) which are converted to the compounds used in the batteries.