Amazon's decision to order 100,000 electric delivery vans from the upstart Rivian while also investing in the company was a turning point, Morgan Stanley says

"It's going to be similar to what the Model 3 has done for the consumer market," Scott Phillippi, a senior director of fleet maintenance and engineering, told the wire service.. "Now all of a sudden, we're off to the races."

https://www.businessinsider.com/electric-delivery-van-united-states-next-top-car-model-2020-6

The autor of the article uses the phrase "the perfect infection point".  I am relatively confident that he meant to say: "the perfect inflection point".  At any rate as the market for delivery vans transmogrifies over to electric delivery vans in the near and distant future it will be just one more factor tipping the scales in favor of battery powered electric vehicles.... and the need for more lithium to provide the batteries.