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1. China’s Yahua agrees five-year deal to supply lithium to Tesla
Dec 29, 2020 — Yahua, which is based in southwest China’s Sichuan province, put the total value of the contract, signed by its wholly-owned subsidiary Yaan (1)…
Mar 26, 2019 — The project is roughly 200 miles away from Tesla’s giant lithium-ion battery cell factory, the Gigafactory 1. Indeed, when Tesla chose Nevada (2)…
Oct 3, 2020 — Miners get the elemental lithium from salt brines left over from ancient seas in places like Chile’s Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth, (3)…
2. Nevada’s ‘Lithium Valley’ Could Provide Domestic Supply For …
May 1, 2020 — Tesla is believed to import much of its lithium from Australia and South America. There are many reasons it should source domestically.(4)…
Dec 9, 2020 — To date, Panasonic is the sole provider of lithium-ion batteries to Tesla for EVs manufactured in the U.S. But Panasonic is also expanding its (5)…
Jan 13, 2021 — Shares of American specialty chemicals company Albemarle (ALB), which has lithium production facilities in Nevada and is the top stock in the (6)…
3. As Tesla Booms, Lithium Is Running Out – Forbes
Dec 7, 2020 — In fact, UBS analysts estimated that the lithium market will grow 8X by 2030. Problem is, where will we get all this lithium? Lithium producers (7)…
Nov 2, 2020 — Part of Tesla’s cost savings would come from producing lithium at a site in Nevada near the company’s so-called Gigafactory. Musk told company (8)…
4. Tesla partners with nickel mine amid shortage fears – BBC News
Mar 5, 2021 — While Tesla will not have an equity stake, its partnership in the mine gives it greater control over its electric battery supply chain as it (9)…
Aug 2, 2021 — Tesla is seeing a delay in its lithium supply for next year as a North The automaker agreed to buy about one-third of Piedmont’s planned (10)…
Sep 23, 2020 — Tesla is now officially getting into the mining business with a lithium claim on 10,000 acres in Nevada. At the Battery Day event yesterday, (11)…
To ramp production to 500,000 cars per year, Tesla alone will require today’s entire worldwide supply of lithium-ion batteries. The Tesla Gigafactory was (12)…
None of our scrapped lithium-ion batteries go to landfilling, and 100% are recycled. Lithium-ion battery packs should only be handled by qualified professionals (13)…
5. A Bit About Batteries | Tesla
By now most people know that the Tesla Roadster is powered by Lithium ion The bottom line is that all batteries age, and they lose capacity as they do.(14)…
Sep 21, 2018 — Tesla will designate its battery suppliers to buy lithium-hydroxide products from Ganfeng Lithium Co. and its unit, the Jiangxi-based (15)…
Sep 28, 2020 — Tesla secured its own lithium mining rights in Nevada after dropping a plan to buy a company there, according to people familiar with the (16)…
6. The Economics of Tesla’s Batteries Business – Investopedia
Tesla is breaking ground in electric cars, solar panels, and clean energy with its battery suppliers was too slow, Tesla took steps to get into the (17)…
Jul 28, 2021 — Elon Musk mused that Tesla’s batteries may eventually be two-thirds cheaper lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) cells in its energy storage (18)…
Jan 28, 2021 — Once Tesla begins high-volume production of its lithium ion That’s why, Musk said, “It kinda would not make sense for us to do the Semi, (19)…
Tesla Motors is hiring more construction workers in a bid to move up the opening of its so-called Gigafactory outside of Sparks, Nev., where the electric (20)…
7. Tesla’s battery day ended with no battery and a lot … – The Verge
Oct 1, 2020 — Elon Musk announced Tesla would make its own batteries, process its own raw materials, and even mine its own lithium. Experts say this is a (21)…
Sep 24, 2020 — The structure of graphite allows it to host the lithium atoms that move toward the anode during charging, but that’s all it does. This means (22)…
At GM’s EV Week in March—where reporters were offered sneak peeks of 11 upcoming EVs—the company showed a working prototype of a lithium-metal cell, built at (23)…
8. Tesla’s move into mining aimed at energising battery supply …
Oct 22, 2020 — However, in response to the Financial Times’ reporting, Mr Musk tweeted on Wednesday that “Tesla will do lithium mining only as needed”.(24)…
Jul 30, 2021 — The electric carmaker did not officially announce the sale to investors or the market, or mention it in its earnings call, unlike the (25)…
Jun 3, 2021 — While Tesla gets the raw material for its batteries from Australia, it also supplies the country with batteries used to store energy captured by (26)…
9. Tesla has reportedly abandoned a plan to buy a mining …
As Tesla adjusts its plan to mine Lithium in Nevada, it now has the A Tesla spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for Sep 29, 2020(27)…
Jul 26, 2020 — Albemarle and Ganfeng turn spodumene concentrate from Australia into lithium hydroxide in China. This lithium hydroxide then gets shipped to (28)…
10. Tesla’s Approach to Recycling is the Way of the Future for …
Aug 11, 2018 — So what do Tesla battery components actually get recycled into? · Electronics are removed, tested and reused. · Lithium modules are frozen with (29)…
Tesla Giga Nevada (or Gigafactory 1) is a lithium-ion battery and electric vehicle component In June 2015, Tesla announced it exercised its option to buy 1,864 acres (30)…
Mar 2, 2021 — Companies such as Tesla, take apart old lithium-ion batteries used in its cars and recycles the cooling fluid, wires and electronics in its (31)…
Nov 23, 2020 — Lithium-ion batteries operate by virtue of an anode made of graphite and a such as Tesla’s efforts to reduce cobalt in its batteries, (32)…
Aug 29, 2021 — “Tesla will need to demonstrate that its new approach to lithium mining does in fact have a lower environmental impact than other methods.(33)…
May 6, 2021 — A race is on to produce lithium in the United States, but competing even though its intention is to do good,” said Aimee Boulanger, (34)…
Dec 29, 2020 — Tesla agreed to a five-year purchase of lithium for its car batteries from China’s Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group beginning next year.(35)…
Sep 29, 2020 — Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported that Tesla has secured its own rights to extract lithium – a key ingredient in long- (36)…
Dec 25, 2020 — Tesla says that it recycles 60 percent of the components from its lithium-ion batteries once they’ve reached end of life.(37)…
Mar 28, 2021 — Tesla uses LFP batteries in one version of its China-made Model 3 sedans Would you buy an electric vehicle with a lithium ferrophosphate (38)…
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(1). China’s Yahua agrees five-year deal to supply lithium to Tesla
(2). Who Are Tesla’s Lithium Suppliers? | The Motley Fool
(3). Tesla Needs Lithium. These Are the Best Stocks to Buy to Play …
(4). Nevada’s ‘Lithium Valley’ Could Provide Domestic Supply For …
(5). Four Companies Leading the Rise of Lithium & Battery …
(6). Tesla’s stock surge is great for lithium miners and battery makers
(7). As Tesla Booms, Lithium Is Running Out – Forbes
(8). Tesla, Mining Companies Look for Advancements in Lithium …
(9). Tesla partners with nickel mine amid shortage fears – BBC News
(10). Tesla’s lithium supply delayed as North Carolina project falls …
(11). Tesla is getting into the mining business, buys lithium claim on …
(12). Tesla Gigafactory
(13). Battery Recycling – Tesla
(14). A Bit About Batteries | Tesla
(15). Chinese Lithium Giant Agrees to Three-Year Pact to Supply …
(16). Tesla is trying to mine its own lithium | Fortune
(17). The Economics of Tesla’s Batteries Business – Investopedia
(18). What Tesla’s bet on iron-based batteries means … – TechCrunch
(19). Tesla Semi production on hold until company can make its …
(20). Tesla spurs demand for lithium chemicals
(21). Tesla’s battery day ended with no battery and a lot … – The Verge
(22). Here’s what Tesla will put in its new batteries | Ars Technica
(23). GM Opens Up a New Front in Its Battle With Tesla: Batteries
(24). Tesla’s move into mining aimed at energising battery supply …
(25). Tesla sells Maxwell Technologies but dry cell tech for lithium …
(26). Tesla to Spend $1B on Raw Materials from Australia to …
(27). Tesla has reportedly abandoned a plan to buy a mining …
(28). Tesla’s Lithium & Nickel Sourcing — Australia? Bolivia? China?
(29). Tesla’s Approach to Recycling is the Way of the Future for …
(30). Giga Nevada – Wikipedia
(31). Where Do Electric Car Batteries Come From? | GreenCars
(32). Risky business: the hidden costs of EV battery raw materials
(33). Tesla needs to perform delicate balancing act when it comes …
(34). Lithium Mining Projects May Not Be Green Friendly – The New …
(35). Tesla Inks 5-Year Lithium Buy from China’s Sichuan Yahua
(36). Tesla Secures Rights to Mine Its Own Lithium in Nevada
(37). What Does Tesla Do With Old Batteries? – MotorBiscuit.com
(38). Elon Musk Likes This EV Battery and It Costs Less—but the …
