Teslas lithium recycling plant will provide raw materials for up
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Tesla’s lithium recycling plant will provide raw materials for up to one million electric vehicles per year

Elon Musk has formally backed his calls for entrepreneurs to recycle lithium for traction batteries with his own example. this weekParticipated in the groundbreaking ceremony for a new facility in Texas that will take on this type of activity and potentially provide raw materials for the production of up to 1 million electric vehicles per year.

    Image source: Tesla

Image source: Tesla

Recall that for some time now, not only Tesla’s headquarters have been located in Texas, but also an electric vehicle manufacturing company with potentially the widest range of products of this brand. Here Elon Musk not only wants to assemble robot taxis, articulated lorries and a second-generation roadster sports car, but also humanoid Optimus robots. The presence of a large lithium processing plant in the same state will help produce 4680 batteries that will be erected in Austin.

Tesla plans to spend at least $375 million to build a lithium processing plant in Texas, documents show. Gov. Greg Abbott attended a groundbreaking ceremony with Elon Musk on Monday. According to his plan, the new plant in Texas should be able to process more lithium hydroxide than all locations in North America combined. The company promises to use advanced lithium hydroxide processing methods that use fewer harmful chemicals and produce more recyclable by-products. Elon Musk assured that no harmful substances are released during production and if you want you can live in the middle of this site without endangering your health. By-products of the Company will be primarily sand and limestone, which may find profitable uses.

More than half of the world’s lithium processing capacity is in China, and the emergence of a large company of this profile in the United States will allow the local industry to reduce its dependence on a country with which it does not have the easiest of connections. The Tesla facility promises to work on both imported raw materials and recycled products from used traction batteries. The construction of the company will be completed next year and the production of products will begin in 2025. About 250 people will be involved in the construction, the number of company employees will be 165.