{"id":5907,"date":"2023-05-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/?p=5907"},"modified":"2026-11-04T02:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T02:42:24","slug":"tesla-raffineria-litio-texas-maggio-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/tesla-raffineria-litio-texas-maggio-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla\u2019s Texas lithium refinery: the project begins in May 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"th-cover-credit\" style=\"font-size:12px;line-height:1.5\">Official rendering of the refinery project: an illustration, not a photograph of the completed facility. Courtesy of Tesla, Inc.<\/p>\n<p data-th-archive-note=\"true\">Archive article written on 4 November 2026.<\/p>\n<p>On 8 May 2023, Tesla announced the start of work on its lithium refinery near Corpus Christi, Texas. The project proposed an investment of more than $1 billion to increase North American supplies of battery-grade lithium hydroxide.<\/p>\n<h2>The step before making cells<\/h2>\n<p>Extracting a raw material and making it suitable for batteries are different activities. For the site of more than 1,200 acres, Tesla described an acid-free refining process using more inert reagents and producing a sand-and-limestone by-product that could be used in construction materials.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement projected nearly a thousand construction jobs and more than 250 full-time positions at the facility. These were project forecasts: breaking ground did not mean the refinery was already supplying material to cell factories.<\/p>\n<h2>Recycling and scrap in the longer-term proposal<\/h2>\n<p>Tesla also envisaged processing other intermediate materials, including recycled batteries and manufacturing scrap. That was a proposed development, not an operation already under way.<\/p>\n<p>The refinery illustrated a less visible part of electrification. Before a battery reaches a car, an industrial supply chain helps determine its availability. The project aimed to address that part of the chain.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Corpus Christi-area project addressed a step before cell manufacturing, with planned capacity and jobs distinct from an operating refinery.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[180,63],"class_list":["post-5907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-batterie-e-ricarica","tag-recupero-archivio","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5913,"href":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907\/revisions\/5913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teslhub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}