Elon Musk Lithium
Elon musk is acting like a neo conquistador for south americas lithium by vijay prashad alejandro bejarano drawing by nathaniel st.
Elon musk lithium. Government organized a coup against president evo morales so that musk could obtain bolivias lithium. Tesla ceo elon musk announced the company had bought the lithium clay rights to 10000 acres in the nevada desert and has developed a new way to process the metal that will create 33 percent less. The ceo of the us based telsa car manufacturer has admitted to involvement in what president morales has referred to as a lithium coup we will coup whoever we want.
Musk noted that tesla will be. It mostly sourced lithium out of australia as the sympathetic site electrek was quick to point out at the. To reiterate elon deleted the tweet and tesla doesnt even get its lithium from bolivia.
However as elon musk has pointed out the term lithium ion batteries is something of a misnomer because they dont really contain that much lithium. Chief executive officer elon musk told shareholders on tuesday tesla has secured rights to 10000 acres in nevada where it aims to produce lithium from clay deposits using a process developed. It didnt help that musk jokingly said they are going to.
Teslas ceo elon musk told investors at the companys battery day event last week that tesla has secured access to 10000 acres of lithium rich clay deposits in nevada and plans to use a new. Deal with it was elon musk s response to an accusation on twitter that the us. Although theyre called lithium ion.