Mainstream adoption of electric vehicles was a distant dream when Orocobre and Galaxy floated in 2007. As they ink a $4b merger, has the future finally arrived?
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Putting lithium into the batteries of electric vehicles (EVs) was not the driving ambition when Richard Seville led Orocobre through a $6.25 million float onto the ASX in 2007.
Richard Seville at Argentina’s Olaroz lithium project in 2017.
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