Posted on 05/09/2023 12:28:43 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk traveled to Texas on Monday to celebrate the groundbreaking of the company’s new lithium refinery that the electric vehicle maker hopes will give the company more control over its supply chain.
Musk said the facility, which will be one of the largest of its kind in the world, will produce lithium for "about a million vehicles" and have more lithium refining capacity than "the rest of North American refining capacity combined."
He explained that the refinery’s capacity could be expanded above the one million vehicle mark and noted that while Tesla will still use other suppliers for its battery-grade lithium, it wanted to address a choke point in the supply chain.
"We thought it’s important to address what we think, as we look ahead a few years, of fundamental choke points in the advancement of electric vehicles is the availability of battery-grade lithium," Musk said. "And lithium ore itself for mining is actually quite common… So it’s not that there’s a shortage of lithium ore to mine, but there is a shortage of really heavy industr
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Drove by it a few months ago, it’s huge!
Interesting.
Where’s the plant going to be located ? (I refuse to do yawhoore)
Glad to see green jobs, such as they are, come to Texas. Corpus Christi - Robstown has a lot of hard working good people.
Couple days from now they’ll have their pick of day laborers to clean up around the site. 😬👍
Uh, I would pass on living in the middle of the refinery! Maybe because of the train tracks running through there?
A great governor! Now if he can just take care of the liberal cities: Dallas, Austin, and New York.
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Tesla Escapes China Just In Time for Texas To Be Invaded By China
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