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Tesla’s North American Battery Supply Commitment: Radical Supply Chain Design!

JASON BUSCH

  - May 22, 2014 11:03 AM | If Tesla is able to implement its vision for local sourcing, a procurement strategy that SCD notes the automaker is embarking on even before it builds its mega-battery producing facility, it will realize many potential benefits by shortening the raw materials supply chain.

SCD notes that the raw material demands will be huge – truly! The forecast volume of the plant is 500,000 car batteries annually, a sum that is off-the-charts high in raw material demands if you consider that “each battery is something like the size of a piece of plywood, a few inches thick, and weighs about 1,000 pounds.”

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• “The company believes it can source all the graphite, cobalt, and other materials it needs without going outside the continent.”
• “The announcement relative to North American-only sourcing is certainly not without risk. To pull it off, Tesla may need to turn to graphite mines in Canada that have yet to be built. The company may also require supplies of cobalt that exceed existing Canadian output and thus need to look at prospective suppliers in states such as Minnesota and Idaho.”

 Rather, perhaps working with localized sources of supply will give it a huge relative advantage in reducing supply risk. It would also potentially increase risk for competitors by locking up North American raw material capacity and forcing others to continue to work with mining firms in unstable regions in developing markets.

TESLA WANTS TO ENSURE SUPPLY!!.....for 500 000 cars yearly!!