Electrek

JANUARY 4, 2022

Panasonic announced that it is going to purchase copper foil produced from recycled materials by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials for battery cell production at Gigafactory Nevada. The materials will end up in Tesla vehicles – going full circle.

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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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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2021

and begin a program to evaluate clays and other available Nevada resources for commercial production of lithium. As global demand for electric vehicles (EV) grows, North American automotive manufacturers are seeking to regionalize their supply chain for greater security and sustainability.

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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. University of Nevada, Reno. The chemistry and process may enable the replacement of smelters for processing sulfide minerals.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Redwood Materials will build its next Battery Materials Campus just outside of Charleston, South Carolina. 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. billion in the local community.

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Electrek

JULY 8, 2022

Tesla has been spotted gathering a massive number of Megapacks outside its Gigafactory Nevada. Is it a backlog due to supply chain issues or a new giant battery is in the work? The post Tesla spotted gathering massive number of Megapacks outside Gigafactory Nevada appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2015

While other commodities are floundering or completely collapsing in this market, lithium—the critical mineral in the emerging battery gigafactory war—is poised to explode, and going forward Nevada is emerging as the front line in this pending American lithium boom. This really is disruptive technology. Albemarle Corp.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2023

The zero-emission vehicle will be on display for the first time from 14-19 July 2023, inside the Peppermill Resort in Reno, Nevada. This new Type C electric school bus features a proven powertrain platform and a next-generation battery with a capacity of 196 kWh, a more than 25%t capacity increase compared to today’s model bus.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Via a post on its website, Tesla Motors outlined its plan for its future battery “Gigafactory”, projected to require between $4-5 billion in investment from Tesla and its partners by 2020, with a resulting cell capacity of up to 35 GWh/year and pack capacity of up to 50 GWh/y to service a projected 500,000 Tesla electric vehicles per year.

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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! The post Tesla Semi spotted charging at newly installed Giga Nevada Megacharger appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Five years ago, Tesla’s collaboration with Panasonic in building its massive Nevada Gigafactory was widely seen as somewhere between an overcommitment and a full-on boondoggle. It assured control over its electric-car battery cell supply, as it ramped up.

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Teslarati

MAY 18, 2024

Tesla has celebrated the production of three million cars across its Fremont factory and Gigafactory Nevada, just under two years after surpassing two million at the sites. On Friday evening, in a post on X , Tesla’s main account shared a congratulations to Fremont and Giga Nevada, celebrating the accomplishment.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Tesla Semi jobs are in Sparks, Nevada; Palo Alto, California; and Austin, Texas. Tesla Boomer Mama on X counted 86 new jobs posted by the Tesla Semi department , including positions called for Asset Technicians, Software Engineers, and supply chain specialists. Tesla posted quite a few open jobs related to Semi production.

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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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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

equity stake in McEwen Copper, a subsidiary of Canadian mining company McEwen Mining, which owns the Los Azules project in Argentina and the Elder Creek project in Nevada. which holds 100% interests in the Los Azules project in Argentina and in the Elder Creek exploration property in Nevada. The company is acquiring a 14.2%

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

to establish a domestic Li-Ion battery industry. to establish a domestic Li-Ion battery industry. The supply chain cannot ignore a company that became the largest user of Li-Ion batteries in the world overnight and is planning a 20x expansion in 5 years.”. Batteries' 18650 cells vs. large format.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 28, 2019

Unlike other electric automakers, Tesla has long had a lock on its own battery supplies through an exclusive deal with Panasonic and the companies' jointly owned battery Gigafactory in Nevada.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Panasonic has agreed to purchase cathode materials and copper foil from Redwood Materials for its battery factories in Nevada and Kansas.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Redwood Materials, founded by Tesla co-founder and former CTO JB Straubel ( earlier post ), is launching the most comprehensive electric vehicle battery recycling program, beginning in California, to establish efficient, safe and effective recovery pathways for end-of-life hybrid and electric vehicle battery packs.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

a Panasonic Group company, began construction on a new lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility in De Soto, KS, following the approval by Panasonic Holdings Corporation Board of Directors. Facility construction is focused on rapidly ramping up manufacture of 2170 cylindrical Li-ion batteries to meet surging domestic EV battery demand.

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Teslarati

JUNE 14, 2021

Redwood Materials, a battery and e-waste recycling venture from former Tesla executive J.B. Straubel, has opened up a new manufacturing facility in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Park, just miles from Tesla’s Giga Nevada production facility. Tesla also manufactures electric motors for the Model 3 in the Nevada Gigafactory.

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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 carbonate from Thacker Pass will be used in GM’s proprietary Ultium battery cells. Earlier post.) and Argentine businesses.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 26, 2024

Battery supplier CATL is developing faster-charging battery cells for Tesla, according to Bloomberg (via Automotive News). CATL chairman Robin Zeng mentioned this project in an interview with Bloomberg in Hong Kong on Monday, in which he also confirmed that CATL is supplying equipment for Tesla's Nevada battery factory.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 28, 2024

billion battery plant in South Carolina, set to be the JB Straubel-led company’s second. Redwood Materials broke ground on the South Carolina battery materials facility last week, as announced by Director of Public Affairs and Government Relations Morgan Crapps in a LinkedIn post. “And we’re off!

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Global demand for lithium is expected to grow as much as ten-fold over the next decade, particularly with the increasing use of lithium for batteries within multiple energy and transportation applications. The only current domestic supply comes from the Silver Peak mine in Nevada.

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Innovation News Network

MARCH 1, 2023

Nevada is a region of great mineral wealth, making the state well-placed to accelerate the battery materials supply chain. The post Accelerating Nevada’s role in the global battery supply chain appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 12, 2022

During a recent interview with CNN anchor Julia Chatterley, Tesla co-founder and Redwood Materials CEO JB Straubel shared his thoughts about what he estimates is an upcoming electric vehicle battery supply crisis, his thoughts on the adoption of recycled batteries, and his long tenure with the Elon Musk-led EV maker.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Redwood will draw upon this milestone-based financing in tranches that support phased construction and allows the company to unlock funding as it accelerates the construction and expansion of its first battery materials campus. This will provide enough battery materials to produce more than one million electric vehicles a year domestically.

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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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Teslarati

AUGUST 31, 2024

General Motors (GM) will delay part of a mining investment in Nevada worth $330 million, as announced by partner Lithium Americas this week. Lithium Americas shared the news in a press release on Friday, saying that GM agreed to delay the $330 million investment into developing Thacker Pass in Nevada.

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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.

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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

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. Panasonic is one of Tesla’s most experienced battery suppliers.

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Teslarati

JUNE 5, 2023

Tesla battery supplier Panasonic is accelerating plans to increase battery cell production at Gigafactory Nevada. Increasing battery production at Giga Nevada would likely help Tesla increase its vehicle production capacity and benefit from the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) electric vehicle (EV) tax credits.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 27, 2024

Redwood Materials, the Tesla battery materials recycling partner founded by JB Straubel, has shared a new construction update on its cathode active material (CAM) facility—set to be the first of its kind in the U.S. We’ve “topped out” our cathode facility, which will represent the US’ first commercial supply of CAM.

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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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