Tesla Is Zooming Ahead With Its Massive Lithium Battery Gigafactory TSLA ILC.v TNR.v LIT

  

  Elon Musk is very serious to bring disruption not only to the auto makers, but to shake up a few Trillion dollar industries along the way.

Powered By Lithium: Why Build a Gigafactory? The Numbers Behind Tesla’s Wild Plans TSLA ILC.v TNR.v LIT

Elon Musk: Tesla Lithium Gigafactory Will Make Batteries With 400 Miles Range For Tesla Model S TSLA ILC.v TNR.v

"Eon Musk confirms another very important outcome of his Tesla Gigafactory plan. It will not only  reduce the cost of existing batteries by 30% and allow Tesla Model E launch with 200 miles range and price tag of 35k, but also Tesla Model S and X can get the better quality Lithium Battery packs for up to 400 miles range. Once "affordable" Electric Car can go over 300 miles range the Electric Revolution will be happening for real. Will Elon Musk not only Occupy Mars, but save billions of lives in China and India on the way?"

  "Tesla Gigafactory news is making its rounds and igniting the interest in the junior mining investment community from Lithium to Graphite plays and even to Cobalt investment ideas. Among a lot of wannabes will be a few solid stories you have to dig out. Not everybody will be able to develop even the very promising projects - you need Capital and Expertise first.  After that you will have to find the End Users among Lithium Materials Producers, like Ganfeng Lithium to integrate your supply. Elon Musk with Tesla Gigafactory sends the most important message now that Electric Cars are here to stay, volume will bring crucial improvement in Lithium Technology and will allow to reduce the cost of Batteries making the mass market for Electric Cars reality in a few years. Future is happening now.

  This move from Tesla Motors, followed now by Daimler and LG Chem, is stressing out one more time the importance of Vertically Integrated Lithium Batteries Supply Chain in the eyes of major automakers. We are following one such business in the making here with Ganfeng Lithium from China and International Lithium from Canada and will provide a few links for you to study it."

International Lithium: Moving Forward With Strategic Partner Ganfeng Lithium ILC.v TNR.v LIT

  
  International Lithium has issued the newsletter covering the latest transactions with its strategic partner Ganfeng Lithium from China.

International Lithium: Ganfeng Lithium Is Halted Pending Major Acquisition ILC.v TNR.v LIT TSLA KNDI

"We are following International Lithium here with its strategic partner from China Ganfeng Lithium. Elon Musk with his Tesla Gigafactory has brought a lot of attention to the Lithium strategic commodity story and Asian companies are coming into the spotlight as well now. LG Chem is talking about building major Lithium battery plant in China and Lithium Materials Industry is getting the green light from the Chinese government in its efforts to curb the horrible pollution.

"Kirill Klip, president of International Lithium (TSXV:ILC), views the announcement of Tesla’s Gigafactory as a “groundbreaking development.”

Tesla “brought attention to what Elon Musk has accomplished,” Klip told Lithium Investing News. “He showed to everyone that electric cars are not toys anymore — they are for real.”

International Lithium's Strategic Partner, Ganfeng Lithium, Takes Large Stake in Mariana and a $10 million Option on the Blackstairs Projects ILC.v TNR.v LIT

  "Mar 19, 2014 (ACCESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Vancouver, B.C. / ACCESSWIRE / March - 2014 / International Lithium Corp. (the "Company" or "ILC") announces several major transactions with strategic partner GFL International Co., Ltd. ("Ganfeng Lithium" or "GFL")." 

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By Katie Fehrenbacher | Gigaom

Tesla is zooming ahead with its massive battery factory

Electric car maker Tesla is racing toward building the world’s largest factory for lithium ion batteries. In the company’s earnings call on Wednesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that Tesla plans to break ground on the factory in a still undetermined location as early as next month.

In an unusual style, Tesla actually plans to break ground on at least two sites (maybe even three) in parallel until it ultimately chooses one. The list has been narrowed down to a handful of states in the southwest including Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas (that list also now includes California). Musk said Tesla would break ground on the second site a couple months after the first one.

Why such a big rush? Tesla needs the battery factory to be able to produce enough batteries for 500,000 electric cars by 2020, including for Tesla’s third-generation lower cost electric car. If the factory isn’t ramped up at the same time as the ramp up of its third-gen car, it would be a big problem for Tesla.

Production of Tesla’s cars is already constrained by battery supply. Tesla buys small-format lithium-ion batteries from Panasonic, and thousands of batteries are used in each Model S battery pack. On the earnings call this week Musk said that battery supply would constrain Model S production in the second quarter of this year, but would be relieved in the third quarter of this year.

Worries about how battery constraints would hurt the development of the third-gen car are why Tesla is racing forward with the factory so fast and breaking ground on multiple locations. It’s a delicate dance of product launch and supply.

Tesla’s CTO JB Straubel said on the earnings call that every one month delay in the third-gen car due to battery supply constraints “is far more expensive for us than the incremental costs that we may incur up front to kick off two sites at one-time.” Musk said:

If we don’t have the Gigafactory online when we have the vehicle capacity online, we will actually be in deep trouble, because we’ll have all the equipment and tooling and people for making cars, but not be able to produce the battery packs.

Having to move so fast on such an unprecedented factory — the factory is supposed to double the current entire world’s lithium ion battery production — will be difficult and will take a lot of swift and creative thinking on Tesla’s part. Tesla already has an idea of how it would operate.

The battery factory will be like “an industrial park under one roof,” said Musk on the call. Panasonic will likely produce the battery cells in the factory (Tesla now has a signed letter of intent from Panasonic), and then other companies would work in the factory and produce the anode, cathode, separators, and feed them to Panasonic. Tesla would produce the battery packs and be the landlord, said Musk.

California is now a contender for the location of the battery factory, but Musk said California is an “improbable” choice. That’s because the state requires a lengthy process for approval of construction on new sites, and Tesla needs to act quickly."

Lithium Catalyst: Tesla Model E Will Be 20% Smaller, Have 48 kWh Battery TSLA ILC.v TNR.v LIT RM.v

  

  Gas2 provides very interesting additional information on Tesla Model E for the mass market of electric cars. Launch of this model will bring electric cars to the masses and will make the electric revolution for real. Tesla Gigafactory will address the cost of the Lithium Batteries, which will go down more than 30% with the mass market production.

Tesla Battery Gigafactory, Lithium Materials And Lithium Miners

"Time is to study the Tesla Gigafactory plans and its implications for the Lithium materials industry and Lithium miners. Euro Pacific has produced a very good report on the Lithium industry last summer. Now you should adjust Lithium demand estimates with Tesla Gigafactory news and LG Chem plans for the battery factory to be built in China. Please  make sure to check companies mentioned in the report  for all latest details and news for the updated status."

GAS2:

Tesla Model E Will Be 20% Smaller, Have 48 kWh Battery

Elon Musk gave new details on the upcoming Tesla Model E, which will be 20% smaller than the Model S and have a 48 kWh battery good for 200 miles. But can Elon really make a mass-market, 200-mile electric car that costs just $35,000?

That’s the hard part, though Musk has remained confident that he can deliver an affordable electric car with a 200-mile driving range. These new details suggest that the Tesla Model E will be all the way around 20% smaller than the Model S, backing up my assertion that a recent study claiming the Model E will be close to $50,000 is flawed. The Tesla Model S is a big car all the way around, and lopping off 20% of it results in some sizable savings, primarily in terms of weight.

The 60 kWh Model S weighs in at a formidable 4,464 lbs, while the 85 kWh Model S comes in at an even heftier 4,647 pounds, a difference of about 200 pounds. Figure another 200 or so pounds of weight loss dropping the battery down to just 48 kWh, and you’ve already got a nice chunk of weight savings off of a battery estimated to weigh between 1,300 and 1,500 pounds.

That said, the Model E is likely to still come in at or close to 4,000 pounds, even if it really is 20% smaller than the Model S. That figure probably has more to do with the size, rather than the weight of the Model E, with a smaller cabin, front, and rear-end. It also stands to reason that the Model E could even be a front-driver, which help make it even smaller. Following up one of the best cars ever built, electric or otherwise, won’t be easy though.

As far as the battery pack is concerned, a 48 kWh pack should theoretically be good for at least 150 miles of driving with today’s technology. Give Tesla another few years (and the proposedbillion-dollar Gigafactory), and battery prices should go down even as the technology continues to improve, just in time for the Tesla Model E to make its long-awaited debut."

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"The rumours about the death of Electric Cars are greatly exaggerated. Time is to check survivors among junior Lithium mining companies. Chinese companies are securing the supply of strategic materials for the next industrial revolution."

International Lithium Corp. Arranges Loan From Strategic Partner, Jiangxi Ganfeng Lithium Co. Ltd. ILC.v, TNR.v

Powered by LIthium: Tesla Model S Performance vs Dodge Viper SRT10 Drag Racing 1/4 Mile

   The Future is here. Electric Cars are not toys any more. Tesla Model S clearly demonstrates what can be achieved with the new groundbreaking developments in Lithium Batteries and Electric Power-trains. You can slip into the post carbon world without any compromise in style or performance now.

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There is no place for the Internal Combustion Engine in this one for sure. 19th century technology based on controlled explosions of the Dinosaurs Poop under your boot is living the last days...

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GreenCarReports:

Tesla Model S Performance: Fastest Electric Car

"The Tesla Model S Performance looks great on paper.

Not only does the 85 kWh Model S have an impressive 265-mile EPA-rated range, but it'll do the benchmark 0-60 mph sprint in only 4.4 seconds.

That means the all-electric luxury sport sedan from Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] is at least as fast as V-8 German super sedans like the BMW M5.

But how do you quantify that sort of speed in the real world? If you're Drag Times, you put it on the strip, preferably head to head against an American legend like the Dodge Viper SRT10. And then you beat it.

Yup, the near-silent Tesla made a mockery of the shiny red sports car--posting a quarter-mile time of little over 12 seconds in the process.

A second video shows the Tesla's fastest pass, at 12.371 seconds and 110.84 mph. There aren't a great many production cars which would do better--mostly vehicles well into the "supercar" or "hypercar" brackets, and at even higher cost than the Model S.

Some of the other statistics are outstanding too.

Drag Times recorded a 3.9-second 0-60 mph time on their VBOX timing gear. Given the Tesla's hefty weight at the curb of 4,690 lbs, it's even more impressive--weight is typically the enemy of speed.

Huge low-down torque helps, of course--the 416-hp Model S Performance develops 443 lbs-ft from zero to 5,100rpm, and power delivery is much smoother too.

While that driver in the Viper had to manage wheelspin and shift gears, the Tesla driver just has to sink the right pedal and keep it on the floor until he passes the 1/4-mile mark.

We'd love to see what other car giants the Model S is capable of killing.

With zero emissions and supercar-slaying acceleration, it seems you can really have your cake and eat it too."

Powered By Lithium: Electric Cars Revolution - Elon Musk: "It Is here - Tesla Models S Made In USA"

  We have the solution. Technology is Here, Why Not To Use it now - Electric Cars Made in USA?

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"EXXON HATES YOUR CHILDREN. IT'S A SERIOUS ACCUSATION. AND IT DESERVES A SERIOUS EXPLANATION."

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“If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for" 

Albert Einstein.

Famous Misquote:

"'I think there is a world market for about five computers'

Remark attributed to Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board of International Business Machines), 1943"

Powered by Lithium: McKinsey & Co.: China May Still Become A Global Leader In The Electric Vehicle Industry

   

  "China knows too well the real price of Oil. All recent data points out that the spare capacity in Oil production is running dangerously low and any decreased demand from the developed world was immediately substituted by the rising demand from emerging economies."

It Is All About Energy Transition.

Very Rough Translation: We Need More Lithium Now.

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Speed and Spin will be very important in This Game.

Kirill Klip, President of International Lithium - is on the Christmas shopping again, buying his own company shares in the market.

Please, do not forget, that we own stocks we are writing about and have position in these companies. We are not providing any investment advice on this blog and there is no solicitation to buy or sell any particular company

Lithium Drive: New York Meets Tesla Model S

"This summer Model S stretched its legs for the first time and covered some serious ground from the San Francisco bay to the Big Apple. What roads will Model S travel next? With this kind of range and a full charge, this sedan is unstoppable! Stay tuned as Model S continues the journey, and offers the world a chance to see, drive and experience the car of the 21st Century."

We welcome ALL Electric Cars on our streets, but Tesla Motors is special - it shows us that the The Future Is Here Now!

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"Get Amped! This is how it should be - upfront and personal. Green Mobility Revolution which is happening now. New Personal Freedom developed by the start up and not defined by the corporate rules. Dump The Pump - now you can do it. It is not for everyone yet - it is still too expensive, but it is the beginning. 

  Why Freedom and Electric Cars - what about the cords and plugs? Just have a look from another angle. If tomorrow someone will decide to switch off Oil supply - we are all done, No Alternatives, no mobility, no food, no services. Now think the unthinkable - what if it is your own government? It is very childish, but so many are still missing the point - we are all addicted to Oil, we are hooked on that needle - this is the way to control us.

  With Electric Cars we can seriously start to talk about the distributed energy generation, Solar, Wind - other alternatives. It is the time when the real Energy Security can be achieved for the country and also on the personal level. So all die hard fighters for personal freedom with guns and Drill Baby Drill mantra, maybe it is the time to reconsider - fossils are not only among the fuels."

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