Equates to Six New Graphite Mines to Come ONLINE Graphite demand up 152%
Graphite will be the largest input raw material for Tesla. Should the company choose natural graphite, it would require as much as 126,000 tonnes of flake graphite each year in the form of 50,000 tonnes of the battery-grade material, spherical graphite.
This is an increase of 152% on today's battery demand for the mineral. It equates to six new graphite mines on the basis of today's 30,000 tpa mine size average and the yield of suitable material gained from the mine