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Author: Stuart Hardy Date: 2026-04-07 Type: slack Evidence: 1 Themes: 1

copper-specialty-commodities-bottleneck

🟢 [E1909] A Robotaxi is ~200kg of aluminium but a brick without ~1kg of tin holding its brains together. Given 2026 supply deficit and $50k+ price tag, tin is arguably bigger bottleneck risk for Tesla than lithium. Also consider silver, magnesium, gallium.
supporting · 2026-04-07