Tesla's Super battery factory siting in the US is costing 5 billion

Tesla said it would not look for the graphite, cobalt and other materials needed to build gigafactory plants in other markets around the world. Tencent Science and Technology Falcon March 31 compiled U.S. electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla (Tesla Motors Inc.) plans to local materials in North America to build its $5 billion trillion gigafactory super lithium battery factory. Lize Harves Sean Jarvis-shean, the Tesla spokeswoman, said the company would not look for the graphite, cobalt and other materials needed to build gigafactory plants in other markets around the world. "This will enable us to build an environmentally-friendly supply chain market locally and will drastically reduce the cost of production," she wrote in an e-mail. The Tesla Model S electric car sells for up to 71070 dollars. Tesla said that the company's current use of graphite materials "most" from the Japanese and European markets, but also chemical synthetic graphite, not the natural extraction of graphite. Harvey-Sean points out that the company prefers to use synthetic materials. Graphite is one of the important materials in Tesla Model S battery. China is the world's largest producer of natural graphite, according to information released by the london-based industrial oz data. But because of the process of graphite production, in addition to polluting the water, destroying crop cultivation, a lot of graphite dust will obviously pollute the air. Chinese authorities have begun to regulate the graphite industry, shutting down a range of mines, despite the global demand for graphite. Patriotic need to pay high cost the U.S. clean technology market research and consultancy, Sham Jeff, an analyst at Navigant study, said Tesla had a unique acquisition strategy in the battery industry. Analysts who have long tracked the battery industry have pointed out that Tesla may need to resort to a graphite mine in Canada to build a gigafactory plant. In order to obtain cobalt feedstock, Tesla may have to expand its sources outside of Canada and focus on the future supply market for raw materials in Minnesota and Idaho State. TRU Group, a consultancy that specializes in lithium-ion battery industry research, said: "Tesla is clearly patriotic in doing so, but costs more, and the existing production costs of Tesla electric vehicles are already very high." "Tevez-Sean points out that Tesla plans to reduce the production cost per kilowatt hour of lithium batteries by at least 30%, and will also reduce" logistics waste. Lack of cobalt resources Navigant's Jeff points out that Tesla will focus on cost savings and pollution from the process of transporting raw materials. Graphite, cobalt and other minerals often take thousands of of miles to transport from a mine to a factory.It is then processed and then transported to producers and consumers. About half of the world's cobalt is now mined from the Democratic Congo. Tesla said the company's cobalt feedstock came from the Philippines, while Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. (Sumitomo Metal Mining Co.) Just last year a new nickel-cobalt mine was built in the Philippines. Stephen 中文版, a london-based trading company SFP Metals, said that only a handful of regions in the world could provide new cobalt materials, while global demand for cobalt increased by 5% or more each year. "There are still a lot of untapped cobalt resources in the Democratic Congo," he said. "But mining investors in Democratic Congo face investment problems such as power shortages, inadequate infrastructure and political instability." The price of graphite is still going up. Although neither graphite nor cobalt is a so-called "dispute mineral", Tesla tries to avoid the use of mineral resources from war zones such as the western Congo. This year, several U.S. electronics manufacturers, including Apple and Intel, were asked to disclose for the first time whether they used mineral resources from war zones. Marvell Metal, the first director of research at the U.S. rare metals consultancy, said that six additional graphite mines would be needed in the future to meet the growing demand for raw materials for battery production. Several Canadian projects will help increase the supply of graphite in the coming years, but the price of graphite will continue to rise. Navigant's Jeff points out that the graphite produced in North America is greener.