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He also acts as a liaison to the press. He has a PhD in electrochemistry from the University of Nottingham.","https://www.linkedin.com/in/birdmatthew/",{"type":564,"content":565},"doc",[566,583,596,609,614,635,640,647,652,657,662,667,672,677,682,695,700,712,721,726,731,736],{"type":567,"attrs":568,"content":569},"paragraph",{"textAlign":49},[570,573,581],{"text":571,"type":572},"Tesla broke ground on its $1 billion, 1-million-car capacity lithium hydroxide ","text",{"text":574,"type":572,"marks":575},"refinery",[576],{"type":577,"attrs":578},"link",{"href":579,"uuid":49,"anchor":49,"target":49,"linktype":580},"https://source.benchmarkminerals.com/article/everything-we-know-about-teslas-planned-lithium-refinery","url",{"text":582,"type":572}," in Corpus Christi, Texas last week. Joined by Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Deputy Under Secretary for Infrastructure at the Department of Energy Dr Kathleen Hogan, the project has the blessings of local and federal authorities. 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",{"type":567,"attrs":727,"content":728},{"textAlign":49},[729],{"text":730,"type":572},"There was some talk about the input reagents and waste output being more environmentally friendly than the traditional acid-roast route which is used in China. It has been speculated that Tesla is going to be using the Metso-Outotec alkaline leach process, which matches up with the comments made during the ceremony regarding inputs and outputs, but nothing has really been confirmed yet. ",{"type":567,"attrs":732,"content":733},{"textAlign":49},[734],{"text":735,"type":572},"The ceremony has also confirmed output will be lithium hydroxide, supporting the argument that the future in North America will be high-nickel chemistry batteries.",{"type":567,"attrs":737,"content":738},{"textAlign":49},[739],{"text":740,"type":572},"In the end, Musk is a man who puts his money where his mouth is. The next question is whether the massive deficit in lithium forecast for 2030 and beyond means that Tesla does eventually build a mine? And will Musk recognise that mining too is a bottleneck?","Tesla broke ground on its $1 billion, 1-million-car capacity lithium hydroxide refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas last week. Joined by Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Deputy Under Secretary for Infrastructure at the Department of Energy Dr Kathleen Hogan, the project has the blessings of local and federal authorities. But Musk is not building the plant […]",[743],{"slug":555,"name":556,"content":744},{"job_title":558,"image":745,"bio":561,"linkedin":562},{"filename":560},"\u003C!--#storyblok#{\"name\": \"article\", \"space\": \"\", \"uid\": \"2aa832d1-2698-4dd3-ba8b-cc4cee9687f7\", \"id\": \"\"}-->","article",[749],{"slug":750,"name":8},"lithium","private","Benchmark Mineral Intelligence",{"id":49,"alt":718,"name":718,"focus":718,"title":718,"source":718,"filename":754,"copyright":718,"fieldtype":755,"meta_data":756,"is_external_url":51},"https://a.storyblok.com/f/287943243085208/1a7066307d/bm-tesla-lithium-refinery.jpg","asset",{"alt":718,"title":718,"source":718,"copyright":718},"Cameron Perks","Principal Analyst - Lithium","May 16, 2023","16th May 2023",[],[],1780500967152]