Since when was owning a car a right? In well organised cities many people never even learn to drive. I grew up in the countryside and passed my UK test at 18, but London friends have never bothered. They didn't need to and it's expensive.

Also, assuming that something is a problem because of a resource bottleneck, is usually found to be a flawed assumption.

The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones, and the horse age didn't end because they ran out of horses or feed. (Late Victorian England there was a LOT of worry that we couldn't grow enough feed for the horses AND food for people, the populations of both of which were expanding fast, while land in our island, not so much)

We are not short of Lithium. We have limits re identified economic reserves, but that is a very misleading figure. If price goes up suddenly more becomes viable. And we have hardly even started looking for it. We're not much further on than defining oil reserves by where it actually seeps out of the ground. Not being full of salt deserts, here in the UK we've looked a bit harder and found it where we find most minerals, underground.

Price signals also drive technological solutions. Sodium batteries have already reached "drop in" stage. IIRC they are not quite as energy dense as Li but that's becoming less of an issue as charging stations increase in number and charge speed. We have literal oceans of sodium.