Teslarati

AUGUST 15, 2022

Tesla Gigafactory Nevada, a joint operation between the EV maker and longtime battery partner Panasonic, is reportedly expected to boost its production by 10%, or about the equivalent of one production line. This is reportedly where Giga Nevada comes in. So we’re not dependent on 4680.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Tesla Gigafactory Nevada employees have built the 1,000,000th battery pack produced at the plant. Employees at the Sparks, Nevada facility have each signed the commemorative pack, recognizing their hard work has officially resulted in one heck of a milestone for Tesla as a whole and each worker involved on production lines.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 5, 2022

On Tuesday, January 4, Panasonic announced that Redwood Materials would start supplying copper foil to its battery production facility in Giga Nevada. By the end of 2022, @PanasonicNA will include Redwood’s copper foil, produced from recycled materials, back into new battery production at the Gigafactory.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Tesla Gigafactory Nevada is building a Semi Megacharger site on its grounds. The construction of Semi Megachargers at Giga Nevada hints that the pre-production of Tesla’s Class-8 truck maybe underway in the coming months. While this is a sign of progress, it shouldn't be interpreted as production being very close.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

Redwood) will collaborate to create a supply chain to recycle Volkswagen and Audi electric vehicle batteries in the United States, with the goal of providing accessible and more sustainable electric mobility for American drivers. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. VWGoA) and Redwood Materials, Inc.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A Tesla Semi was spotted charging at the company’s newly-installed Megachargers at the Giga Nevada production facility near Sparks, Nevada. Awesome sighting today of a charging Tesla Semi at Tesla Giga Nevada! SawyerMerritt @WholeMarsBlog pic.twitter.com/OoEPI3pacY. FSDBETA $TSLA in Washington ????

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Tesla Giga Nevada’s Semi Megachargers are live, based on recent reports and pictures from the factory. Tesla appears to have started expanding the parking lot at Giga Nevada as well. Tesla Giga Nevada will be producing the company’s Class 8 truck. There is currently one job in Sparks, Nevada listed for the Semi.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 10, 2022

Redwood Materials, a battery recycling company founded and led by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, will begin its production of copper foil his year. Among the recycling company’s first customers is something very familiar to its founder — Gigafactory Nevada, which Tesla operates with Panasonic. Redwood wrote on Twitter.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

E) will award $39 million in funding to 16 projects across 12 states to develop market-ready technologies that will increase domestic supplies of critical elements required for the clean energy transition. Hydrometallurgical Production of Domestic Metals for Energy Transition ($2,949,395). University of Nevada, Reno.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Panasonic Energy signed a long-term supply agreement with H&T Recharge for lithium-ion battery cans in North America. H&T Recharge is a battery component manufacturer supplying cylindrical batteries for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. H&T plans to install state-of-the-art production lines at Panasonic’s Kansas facility.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 6, 2022

In a recent sighting, two units of the Tesla Semi were spotted together near Gigafactory Nevada, and one of them even had its frunk opened. . The images were reportedly taken at the Tesla Semi facility near the Giga Nevada complex. BREAKING: 2 brand new Tesla Semi's spotted at Giga Nevada Semi factory.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2022

Lithium carbonate prices in China rose slightly to 480,500 yuan/tonne in mid-August, remaining close to the record-high of 500,000 from March and 400% higher year-on-year as soaring demand drove expectations of extended supply deficits. The only lithium production in the United States currently is from one brine operation in Nevada.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2023

General Motors and POSCO Future M announced the second phase of their Ultium CAM joint venture, an investment projected to exceed US$1 billion to increase production capacity of cathode active materials (CAM) in North America and integrate precursor materials production. 2021 - Announced long-term supply with MP Materials for U.S.-sourced

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 19, 2024

Tesla finally moved forward with Gigafactory Nevada expansion for Tesla Semi and 4680 cells a year after the original announcement. Tesla Gigafactory Nevada was the first major step in Tesla’s effort to secure battery cell supply for its ambitious growth. It was supposed to become the largest building in the world.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2021

in 2007, Fulcrum has developed a proprietary thermochemical process to convert the organic materials found in MSW to low-carbon drop-in fuels, which can be distributed in the same pipelines as traditional petroleum products. Fulcrum completed the construction of the first commercial-scale MSW-based biofuels refinery in Nevada in July 2021.

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Teslarati

JULY 25, 2022

billion battery materials facility can make a difference in the United States’ EV supply chain. The United States, at least so far, has played a rather small role in the production of raw and intermediate materials for battery cells. . “The beginning of the supply chain didn’t keep up,” Straubel said.

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Teslarati

JUNE 14, 2021

Straubel, has opened up a new manufacturing facility in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Park, just miles from Tesla’s Giga Nevada production facility. Redwood’s new facility is just miles from Tesla Giga Nevada, where the automaker has a joint venture with Panasonic to produce electric vehicle batteries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2018

Ryze Renewables announced that construction is underway for two renewable diesel production facilities in Nevada. Through a long-term supply and offtake agreement, Phillips 66 will supply both plants with feedstock and move 100% of the renewable product from the plants to customers in West Coast markets.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 30, 2024

Redwood Materials , which was founded by Tesla co-founder and current board member JB Straubel , is a battery recycling firm dedicated to the pursuit of creating a circular supply chain for battery materials. As noted by the battery recycling firm in its post , the Cybertruck is quite literally driving circularity in the battery supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

billion will go to 11 projects in the materials separation and processing segment of the supply chain. Anovion , Scaling the Domestic, US Owned and Operated Anode Supply Chain for Synthetic Graphite, $117,000,000. Of that, $1.6 The awardees are: Materials Separation & Processing (Anode Materials).

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 31, 2024

Tesla is expanding its battery facility in Sparks, Nevada to bring the supply chain for cheaper lithium iron phosphate batteries (LFP) to the United States, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday. Tesla, Nevada Economic Development Bureau and CATL did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2023

Most recently in November 2022, ABTC was selected for a competitive US DOE grant for a $20-million project to develop and commercialize a set of next-generation battery recycling technologies to even further enhance the recovery of recycled products and reduce the cost of operations.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 5, 2024

Battery supplier Panasonic Energy has signed a long-term agreement with H&T Recharge, a German battery component manufacturer, for the supply of battery cans in North America. Panasonic and H&T have collaborated since 2017—H&T has supplied approximately 40 GWh of battery can capacity annually to Panasonic Energy’s Nevada facility.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2023

General Motors and Lithium Americas will jointly invest to develop the Thacker Pass mine in Nevada, which is the largest known source of lithium in the United States and the third-largest in the world. Lithium Americas estimates the lithium extracted and processed from the project can support production of up to 1 million EVs per year.

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Teslarati

APRIL 13, 2022

A former Tesla research scientist will join Nevada-based American Battery Technology Company (ABTC), a critical minerals and lithium-ion battery recycling company, to spearhead an EV battery material recycling operation. He also worked for the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection as a scientist in Water Quality Planning.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Japanese company and Tesla supplier Panasonic announced plans on Monday to cut domestic production of electric vehicle (EV) batteries due to some vehicle sales being slower than initially planned. Despite slashing production, Panasonic saw record profits of 288 billion yen ($1.9 The profit record was in part due to 27.6

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The Kansas gigafactory will be the company’s second EV battery facility in the US, following the Panasonic Energy of North America (PENA) facility in Sparks, Nevada. Panasonic Energy plans to begin mass production in Kansas by March 2025. Tesla uses the 2170 in the Model 3 and Model Y. and Kissick Construction Co.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

Now Aqua has signed a strategic supply agreement with battery materials supplier 6K Energy to establish a more sustainable supply chain for battery critical minerals. At full scale, Aqua will provide 30% of the nickel and lithium carbonate needed at 6K’s PlusCAM facility.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2015

Nevada has granted the first license for an autonomous commercial truck—the Freightliner Inspiration—to operate on an open public highway in the United States to Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA). Nevada legislation passed in 2011 and 2013 regulates the testing and operation of autonomous vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Redwood takes in end-of-life batteries, break them down to their basic metals (such as nickel, copper, cobalt, and lithium) and then rebuilds those metals into cathode and anode products. Similar to the Nevada operations, Redwood’s South Carolina operations will be 100% electric and won’t use any fossil fuel.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2022

Australia-based ioneer, an emerging lithium–boron supplier, signed a binding offtake supply agreement with the Prime Planet Energy & Solutions (PPES) joint venture between Toyota Motor Corporation and Panasonic Corporation, in which ioneer will supply PPES with lithium carbonate from its Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Project in Nevada.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 28, 2024

Located outside of Charleston, the plant will be used to recycle, refine, and manufacture anode and cathode components, not unlike the company’s Nevada materials location. Earlier this month, the company highlighted that it’s building a cathode plant in Nevada that will support a capacity of over one million EVs per year.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 31, 2024

Tesla is reportedly poised to expand its battery production activities in Nevada. Citing individuals reportedly familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News noted that Tesla is looking to establish the facility in Sparks, Nevada. Instead, the EV maker is “very appreciative of our suppliers,” one of which is CATL.

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CN EV Post

MARCH 28, 2023

Image credit: CATL ) CATL recently entered into a 450 MWh supply agreement with US battery storage project developer HGP, the battery giant's latest similar agreement with a US company. This is CATL's latest agreement with a US company for the supply of energy storage systems.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Redwood Materials will supply Panasonic with recycled battery cathode material starting in 2025, shipping remanufactured components to the battery maker’s recently-announced Kansas factory. Redwood’s recycling efforts have been combined with various manufacturers and suppliers, outlining a ramp-up of 100 GWh production by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2023

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) has offered a conditional commitment to lend up to $700 million to Ioneer Rhyolite Ridge LLC to develop a domestic supply of lithium carbonate for electric vehicle (EV) batteries from the Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Project (Rhyolite Ridge) in Esmeralda County, Nevada.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 13, 2023

Department of Energy has announced that it will loan $700 million to mining company Ioneer to develop lithium reserves found in Nevada. Now, a new source of lithium, found within the state of Nevada, will be developed by the mining company Ioneer, with help from a $700 million loan from the Department of Energy. As the U.S.

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