Tesla started building a lithium refinery in Robstown, Texas, in May 2023, and the company recently announced that the ...

Musk’s Robstown site fits the bill. The factory sits on former farmland in an unincorporated portion of Nueces County in ...

Traditional lithium refining is water- and energy-intensive, requires powerful acids and creates hazardous byproducts, but Tesla says the refining process it’s developed for the Robstown site is ...

"This process eliminates the use of hazardous ... making beneficial use of traditional waste streams." The lithium refinery further cements Musk's mark in Texas. Along with the presence of ...

What Happened: The Corpus Christi-area plant represents the large-scale battery-grade lithium refinery in the United States and pioneers an acid-free refining process. This development comes as ...

With an abundance of critical resources, Australia could secure its place as an energy “superpower”. We look at the steps the ...

Lithium Americas plans to start mining and refining lithium in Nevada by 2027 ... But achieving full-scale production with a new process and inexperienced operators won’t be easy, Berry says.

The $375 million lithium refinery is expected to make enough material to build more than 1 million electric vehicle batteries a year. Greg Abbott and Elon Musk celebrate construction of Tesla’s ...

The facility is a first of its kind in North America and was billed as the "first industrial deployment of an acid-free lithium refining route,” according to Tesla. "This process eliminates the ...