What do electric vehicles, energy storage systems, and your smartphone have in common? All of their batteries use lithium, a naturally-occurring metal that’s seeing growing demand from manufacturers around the world.  Unlike other natural resources, the challenge in meeting this multi-billion dollar demand isn’t finding enough of it —it’s the 16th most-common element found in the Earth’s crust—but the extraction process. Traditional methods take up to 18 months and only recover 30% of lithium found in salt lakes or other minerals. EnergyX not only developed a better extraction process that recovers three-time the amount of lithium in a fraction of the time, they’ve also partnered with top industry leaders to put them in a position to become a global leader in the energy storage market, expected to reach $546B by 2035.  They’re backed by General Motors, and recently received a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to extract lithium from geothermal brines.…