"In this way, Chengjian Xu, Bernhard Steubing and colleagues developed models to show how battery production capacity for lithium, nickel and cobalt will have to increase significantly since demands for electric vehicles could outgrow current production rates even before 2025"

Bold emphasis above is mine and not in the original article.

The original article looks at future need for lithium battery materials and seems to focus also on the anticipated future recycling of lithium battery components.  The article was published back in December of 2020.  FYI  Originally published in Tech Xplore

Future material demand for automotive lithium-based batteries (techxplore.com)