Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 12:07:08 +0000
Tesla is on a roll this week. To keep up with its almost constantly growing sales, Tesla has been ramping up Model Y production at sites around the world. It has also just broken ground on a lithium refinery project. The big news on both fronts this week comes from The Lone Star State. (Unfortunately, […]
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 02:13:35 +0000
Tesla recently hired a geologist, which many be a step in the direction of lithium and critical materials mining. There’s no official announcement that Tesla will actually do its own mining, and there could be other reasons that it’s hiring geologists. It could be a focusing on critical minerals and the supply chain in order […]
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2020 06:00:33 +0000
Let’s talk about lithium production. Lithium is the first member of the alkali metal family — elements that make up Group 1 (IA) of the periodic table. Lithium is also the least dense of all of the metals in its group, with a density of about half that of water. It has many uses, including in batteries