Tesla Plans Lithium Hydroxide Plant Refinery at Texas Gigafactory, an Industrial Info Market Brief

As site preparation work at Tesla's Cybertruck Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, moves along, the company is planning lithium battery cell production and a lithium hydroxide plant addition, further moving the company upstream in the lithium supply chain. Tesla is planning to build a spodumene ore concentrate conversion and lithium hydroxide refinery utilizing hydrometallurgical process technology as a precursor to lithium battery cell production.