Lithium prices rise 490% a year, Tesla or personally mined, Musk: these are all on the earth

With the development of the times, the comprehensive national strength of the mainland has been enhanced. Now people's living standards are gradually improving, and people's demand for material information is getting higher and higher.

There are many things on the market that were unimaginable before, from a small line to a house and a car, etc., and these also greatly facilitate people's lives.

There are many brands of cars, different brands of cars have different advantages, and everyone has bought the most suitable car for themselves under their own considerations.

In the process of buying a car, I believe that everyone also has a certain understanding of the Tesla brand. To be honest, tesla's price is not cheap, because now everyone is pursuing energy conservation and emission reduction, so compared to oil vehicles, trams are more in line with the requirements.

However, now Tesla has also encountered a bottleneck, let's see what is going on, right?

First, Tesla

Tesla is an American energy company specializing in electric vehicles.

Tesla's market is also selling well all over the world, and now Tesla's market value has reached $210 billion, and his main business is electric vehicles, solar panels and energy storage equipment. It has great advantages in these areas, and Tesla has also shouted the slogan "Accelerating the global transition to sustainable energy."

Tesla's intentions are good, and Tesla is innovative enough. With global oil vehicles occupying most of the market, Tesla has chosen the tram and new energy vehicle markets.

Generally speaking, electricity is cheaper than fuel, and now we are also advocating the use of green energy and sustainable energy, so many people choose to buy new energy vehicles, and Tesla is the best choice.

Tesla's "memorable" is the video of a female Tesla owner in Shanghai wearing a shirt printed with "brake failure" at the auto show in 2021. I believe that most people know and understand Tesla more from this video.

Later, Tesla headquarters also set up a relevant investigation team to investigate, recalled 280,000 cars and publicly apologized to everyone. I believe that many people watch this news and dare not buy Tesla cars anymore.

In fact, many domestic electric vehicles in the mainland are also very good, and they also provide a lot of choices for everyone in terms of new energy vehicles.

Second, lithium batteries

We all know that lithium batteries are an indispensable element in new energy vehicles. Most of today's trams use lithium batteries, and it can be said that lithium batteries are a key factor in new energy vehicles.

Lithium batteries are mainly divided into lithium batteries and lithium-ion batteries, we usually use mobile phones and laptops, etc. are used lithium-ion batteries, and lithium batteries, generally speaking, the risk factor is relatively large, and has not been used in daily use of electronic products.

Lithium batteries have more advantages than the original traditional batteries, such as lithium batteries have higher safety performance.

Because we use coke and graphite as the negative electrode material of the battery, this kind of resource is relatively easy to obtain, and there is no toxicity, so that it can overcome the shortcomings of high activity of lithium ions, making lithium batteries more stable.

At the same time, the discharge performance of lithium batteries is also relatively good, and it can also be charged quickly.

The general lithium battery can reach more than 80% of the battery capacity after 30 minutes of charging, and the working temperature of the lithium battery is between minus 25 degrees and 45 degrees, which is relatively large and covers the working temperature of most of the batteries.

In addition, the cycle life of lithium batteries is very long, and general lithium batteries can be used more than 500 times, or even more than 1000 times.

For those electrical appliances with small current, the power consumption period of lithium batteries is higher, and lithium batteries will not catch fire and explode in the face of short circuit, overcharge, needle puncture, incineration and other situations.

It can be seen that the safety performance of lithium batteries is very high and is one of the best batteries now, so lithium batteries are also widely used in new energy trams.

Third, Tesla personally mines

But the headache is that in the past year, lithium prices have soared by 490%, which has also greatly increased the cost of new energy trams.

Tesla, which originally had a price advantage, is also facing a headache problem, in this regard, Tesla President Musk said: Lithium prices have reached an almost crazy level, so we have to consider our own direct large-scale mining and refining lithium, so as to be able to ensure that we are profitable, or unless there is a miracle of lithium price decline.

Musk said in an interview that lithium resources are not lacking, and many places on the earth have them.

Then some people have to ask, since lithium resources are not lacking, why has the price of lithium soared? The reason is that lithium ore mining is more difficult, the time is relatively long, and its refining speed is also very slow.

Before 2020, there have been a number of lithium mines because of operational difficulties and announced the news of suspension, in addition, there are no new lithium resource miners, which makes the supply of lithium ore resources relatively small. If you want to know that if you resume work after the suspension of production, it will take at least 2 to 5 years of time difference.

For a newly discovered lithium resource, the time from discovery to production is about 17 years. At present, there are many lithium ore resources in the world in the stage of feasibility study, if these lithium ore resources can be put into use, then the earliest will not be able to be used in 2024 to 2026.

Therefore, lithium ore has been very scarce in recent times, resulting in an increase in the price of lithium resources. According to statistics, the United States has lithium ore resources throughout the country, because the price of lithium is too high, so the cost of trams is increased, so Musk decided to personally mine lithium ore.

conclusion

To know that a new energy vehicle manufacturer personally mining also needs to consume a lot of costs. It can be seen that Musk, the president of Tesla, is a very courageous person.

New energy vehicles still have to make great progress even in the face of a crazy increase in lithium prices of 490%, which shows that new energy vehicles also have high profits behind the rapid expansion of production.

Now, we advocate the use of new energy sources around the world, and the concept of energy conservation and emission reduction is also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. It is believed that in the future trams are a very promising market. The future of the new energy automobile industry will also be a hundred flowers, do you think Musk's decision is correct?

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