Oil Man Musk show your supply chains Demands for transparent supply chains
With big demand growth projected, the source of synthetic graphite may become increasingly problematic. Beyond the monetary cost, synthetic also has more severe environmental implications to consider.
For a start, the production of synthetic requires considerably more energy than does natural. While most of the carbon contained remains in the product during processing, generating a low level of CO2 emissions in production, synthetic graphite production burns off sulfur, nitrogen and ash impurities from its hydrocarbon feedstocks and is therefore a large source of NOx, SOx and particulate emissions.Musks biggest problem on battery day is he better come clean on his supply chains