Tesla is on a roll this week. To maintain up with its nearly continuously rising gross sales, Tesla has been ramping up Mannequin Y manufacturing at websites all over the world. It has additionally simply damaged floor on a lithium refinery mission. The massive information on each fronts this week comes from The Lone Star State. (Sadly, there’s larger information out of Texas this week, however that’s not our matter of focus.)
Giga Texas achieves manufacturing of 5k Mannequin Y/week pic.twitter.com/WwZrv3CYae
— Tesla (@Tesla) Might 9, 2023
Initially, Tesla introduced just a few hours in the past that it has reached manufacturing of 5,000 Mannequin Y electrical SUVs every week at Giga Texas, it’s giant and rising manufacturing facility simply outdoors of Austin, Texas. When you extrapolate for the complete yr, 5,000 every week means 260,000 Mannequin Y a yr — simply from Giga Texas. Nevertheless, presumably, Tesla is constant to ramp up manufacturing there and the quantity will probably be larger by the tip of the yr.
The Mannequin Y is already the very best promoting electrical car on the earth, and in 2022 it was the third finest promoting vehicle of any variety (fueled by gasoline, electrical energy, or leprechaun charms). Can it rise to #1 on the earth in 2023?
Tesla Mannequin Y Leads World EV Gross sales Volumes
Lithium Refining by Tesla
Most likely the larger information from Tesla is that it has damaged floor on a lithium refinery. The lithium refinery is in Texas, and you may watch the complete groundbreaking ceremony under (by way of Twitter, after all).
Tesla Lithium Groundbreaking Ceremony https://t.co/0MCiZvQLHl
— Tesla (@Tesla) Might 8, 2023
Right here’s the shorter abstract of what this entails, in response to Tesla:
“Growing lithium refining capability is essential to a sustainable vitality economic system—at the moment, we’re breaking floor on our in-house lithium refinery outdoors of Corpus Christi, TX.
“This facility can even prioritize the elimination of a difficult refinery byproduct (sodium sulfate).
“As an alternative, the byproduct is a combination of sand & calcium carbonate—a viable additive within the manufacturing of building supplies, permitting us to utilize this waste stream.
“Sooner or later, we can even course of different intermediate lithium feedstocks, together with these from recycled batteries & manufacturing scrap.”
We’ve lengthy recognized this was coming, and reported on it final yr. However the mission is certainly now underway, and Tesla is launching into the mineral refining enterprise. It shouldn’t be too lengthy earlier than we get information of Tesla breaking floor on a lithium mining website, proper?
Additionally, now we have to marvel, the place will Tesla construct a lithium refinery subsequent? Or is that this a one-off that Tesla was impressed to assemble and function as a result of incentives within the Inflation Discount Act of 2022.
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