{"id":49208,"date":"2023-05-09T06:03:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T10:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=49208"},"modified":"2023-05-09T06:03:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T10:03:26","slug":"tesla-lithium-refinery-event-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=49208","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Lithium Refinery Construction Begins, See The Groundbreaking Ceremony Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tesla officially broke ground at its lithium refinery near Corpus Christi, Texas yesterday, at an event where the company\u2019s CEO Elon Musk arrived in an accessorized Cybertruck.<\/p>\n

Making his appearance in the all-electric pickup truck fitted with a roof and tools rack<\/a> which has never been seen before, adorned with the flags of the United States of America and the state of Texas, Musk began the presentation (embedded above) by saying:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re incredibly excited to announce one of the biggest lithium refineries in the world, at a location [where] we expect to produce lithium for about a million vehicles, and produce more battery-grade lithium than the rest of North America\u2019s refinery capacity combined.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We first learned about Tesla<\/a>\u2019s intentions on the battery-grade lithium facility back in 2020<\/a>, when Benchmark Mineral Intelligence<\/em> revealed a deal between the American EV maker and Piedmont Lithium. That same year, during Tesla\u2019s Battery Day Event<\/a>, the automaker announced that it was going into the mining business by buying lithium claims on 10,000 acres in the state of Nevada.<\/p>\n

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Things progressed, and in September of last year, rumors said that construction would begin by the end of 2022<\/a>, which didn\u2019t happen until yesterday when the EV brand officially broke ground on what Elon Musk<\/a> previously described as \u201ca license to print money:\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo it is basically like minting money right now. There\u2019s like software margins in lithium processing right now. So I would really like to encourage, once again, entrepreneurs to enter the lithium refining business. You can\u2019t lose. It\u2019s a license to print money,\u201d Musk said last year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The American car manufacturer and occasional beer-selling enterprise<\/a> updated the timeline for the lithium refinery, estimating that it will finish construction next year and achieve production in 2025.<\/p>\n

During the presentation, Tesla’s representatives didn\u2019t reveal too many details about the new facility but said that the technology used for the refining process cuts several steps compared to traditional facilities and that it reduces waste.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the company plans on importing lithium ore and using lithium from recycled batteries, reducing the environmental impact even further.<\/p>\n

Tesla\u2019s lithium refinery near Corpus Christi, Texas will cost around $365 million and will employ about round 165 people full-time plus another 250 construction workers for approximately two years. We previously reported on the first job postings<\/a> in January, when Tesla was looking for an Area Superintendent, Project Scheduler, and Area Construction Manager, among others.<\/p>\n

As always, we\u2019d like to know what you think about this, so head over to the comments section below to give us your thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tesla officially broke ground at its lithium refinery near Corpus Christi, Texas yesterday, at an event where the company\u2019s CEO Elon Musk arrived in an accessorized Cybertruck. Making his appearance in the all-electric pickup truck fitted with a roof and tools rack which has never been seen before, adorned with the flags of the United […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}