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Tesla will build Nevada’s largest Supercharging Station at Primm Valley Resort

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Tesla will build Nevada’s largest Supercharging Station at the Primm Valley Resort just south of the Las Vegas Strip, according to Clark County permits. It will be the largest Supercharger station in Nevada. Tesla has several large-scale Supercharger locations in Nevada, especially in Las Vegas. Credit: Tesla.

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Renault nears EV battery recycling partnership in ‘advanced’ talks

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Jean-Philippe Bahuaud, Chief Executive of Renault’s environmental division, ‘The Future is Neutral’ (TFIN), says the automaker is seeking to build a “closed-loop,” industrial-scale EV battery supply chain —which would make the company the first to do so in Europe. company Redwood Materials.

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GM, POSCO Future M announce 2nd phase of CAM production in N America; adding pCAM

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pCAM is a specifically engineered combination of processed raw materials necessary to produce CAM, a key battery material representing about 40% of the cost of a battery cell. We’re building higher levels of vertical integration, driving expanded investment and helping create jobs across North America. Cell Manufacturing and R&D Dec.

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The Boring Company acquires more land for Vegas Loop expansion: report

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acre piece of land situated across the street from the Thomas & Mack Center, an arena located on the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) campus. Clark County records indicate that the Boring Company’s acquisition cost $7.2 million to build.

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Tesla and Panasonic begin production of Li-ion cells at Gigafactory

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Tesla and Panasonic have begun mass production of high-performance cylindrical “2170” (21mm diameter, 70mm height) lithium-ion battery cells at the Gigafactory in Nevada. The current structure—representing 30% of the final building—has a footprint of 1.9 million square feet housing 4.9

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Panasonic cools on idea for third US plant for Tesla batteries

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The 2024 Model 3 / Source: Tesla Panasonic, makers of batteries for Tesla in the US, is delaying its plan to build a third battery plant in North America, according to Reuters. Panasonic Group CEO Yuki Kusumi told Reuters that the company is holding off on building a third plant as “demand for electric vehicles cools.”

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PNNL, Moselle to advance using magnetic nanoparticles to capture lithium, cesium from brines

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By using the magnetic nanoparticles to attach to the lithium particles in solution, we expect the resulting concentrate to be in a purer form, thereby reducing the cost of further processing. And this will take out more than half the cost. If successful, the group would like to build a pilot-scale plant in New Zealand.