- The batteries, which are manufactured from lithium, will come from Tesla’s Gigafactory.
- Despite not being fully operational until 2020, the Gigafactory’s insatiable hunger for raw material has forced Tesla to make a deal with the state of Nevada to reroute Interstate 80 and Interstate 50 , in order to shave a few miles off of the lithium highway.
- In order to do that they have introduced: Tesla Semi, a heavy duty autonomous cargo truck, currently in development.
- With production planned for around the time the Gigafactory goes fully online, the Tesla Semi may be the only way to sustain its magnitude of production. “
- We believe the Tesla Semi will deliver a substantial reduction in the cost of cargo transport” said Elon Musk.
Elon Musk’s plan for the future of energy will require almost half of the world’s supply of Lithium; sustaining that may require the world’s first autonomous trucking fleet to link the Tesla(TSLA) Gigafactory with Albermarle’s(ALB) Chemetall-Foote Lithium Plant, the largest lithium producer in North America. Tesla’s grand plan for an energy revolution is predicated on high…
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