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Originally Posted by RedDevil
All the tractors and earth moving equipment etc. will actually require less battery capacity than all cars and light trucks, because they are vastly outnumbered by the latter.
GF1 buildout is slow because Tesla is in the process of setting up its own battery manufacturing lines with its million mile chemistry and tech from Maxwell and its recently acquired Canadian battery manufacturer. Once that's done it will grow big. No it is not enough yet. But it will be.
There's no reason why doubling battery production should take 6 years. Production should be able to match demand,any demand, within 2 years - that's about how long it takes to set up all stages of battery manufacturing and resource mining (but I bet the Chinese can do it even faster).
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If you can't get a mine open that's a problem.
The nimby useful idiots here are trying to block a new cobalt mine and it looks like they might win.
If they can open the mine it will take best case scenario 2 years but the nimbys will probably be able to keep it tied up in court for years.
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