Comments on: Tesla Motors Likely To Start Buying Batteries From Samsung (As Well As Panasonic) http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/01/tesla-motors-likely-to-start-buying-batteries-from-samsung-as-well-as-panasonic/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 12:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Bob_Wallace http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/01/tesla-motors-likely-to-start-buying-batteries-from-samsung-as-well-as-panasonic/#comment-179810 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:47:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=55919#comment-179810 Lithium is mined. Extracting from brine is a less expensive process.

http://rodinialithium.com/lithium/lithium_mining/

Prior to China taking over lithium production via underpricing the market we mined lithium in North Carolina. And we’re developing a lithium mine in Wyoming.

Bolivian lithium is not a brine but salt flats which are harvested by surface mining.

]]> By: Dr_T_Gasman http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/01/tesla-motors-likely-to-start-buying-batteries-from-samsung-as-well-as-panasonic/#comment-179773 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 10:01:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=55919#comment-179773 Lithium isn’t mined. It involves using brine to leach the lithium salt out of solution. The leaching materials (brine) and byproducts (potash, boron) are fully reusable and/or available for secondary use.
(i.e., does not involve dwarves with pickaxes.)

]]> By: Dr_T_Gasman http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/01/tesla-motors-likely-to-start-buying-batteries-from-samsung-as-well-as-panasonic/#comment-179772 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:54:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=55919#comment-179772 Lithium isn’t mined. It involves using brine to leach the lithium salt out of solution. The leaching materials (brine) and byproducts (potash, boron) are fulreusable a

]]> By: Steeple http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/01/tesla-motors-likely-to-start-buying-batteries-from-samsung-as-well-as-panasonic/#comment-179713 Mon, 02 Sep 2013 23:39:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=55919#comment-179713 Will be entertaining to watch how people defend that certain mining is good while other mining is bad.

]]> By: Bob_Wallace http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/01/tesla-motors-likely-to-start-buying-batteries-from-samsung-as-well-as-panasonic/#comment-179704 Mon, 02 Sep 2013 23:09:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=55919#comment-179704 Perhaps you aren’t aware of the lithium plants opening around the world? Including in the US….

]]> By: Steeple http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/01/tesla-motors-likely-to-start-buying-batteries-from-samsung-as-well-as-panasonic/#comment-179689 Mon, 02 Sep 2013 21:45:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=55919#comment-179689 So when do Chile and China get together and form a Lithium cartel? I suspect a few people are starting to worry about that.

]]> By: aseuss http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/01/tesla-motors-likely-to-start-buying-batteries-from-samsung-as-well-as-panasonic/#comment-179672 Mon, 02 Sep 2013 20:07:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=55919#comment-179672 It is smart for Tesla to diversify away from Japanese suppliers like Panasonic, because demand for cells is going to skyrocket not just because of Tesla but because Toyota is now working with Panasonic to build its lithium-ion fuel cells.

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