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ThunderStockon Aug 31, 2016 4:48pm
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Is There Enough Lithium to Maintain the market?
Is There Enough Lithium to Maintain the market?Is There Enough Lithium to Maintain the Growth of the Lithium-Ion Battery Market? Interresting article.
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Tesla is expecting to produce 500,000 cars per year by 2020. With an assumed average capacity of 65 kilowatt-hours per vehicle (taking into account both the smaller battery of the expected Model S and the larger batteries like those in the P85 and P85D), 500,000 65-kilowatt-hour batteries per year would require, at about 10 kilograms of lithium per battery, 5 million kilograms (5,000 metric tons) of refined lithium per year.
Tesla is also planning to produce batteries like the Powerwall, recently announced, and much larger grid support batteries, as well as sales to third parties. Tesla’s expected lithium demand per year by 2020, at full production, is about 8,000 metric tons. (...)