{"id":1127235,"date":"2019-07-17T18:10:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T23:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=996940"},"modified":"2019-07-17T18:10:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T23:10:53","slug":"lithium-price-tesla-now-sells-22-of-worlds-battery-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1127235","title":{"rendered":"Lithium price: Tesla now sells 22% of world\u2019s battery power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adamas Intelligence tracks the battery capacity (<a href=\"https:\/\/mining.com\/battery-capacity-electric-cars-nearly-double-last-year\/\">and<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adamasintel.com\/subscription\/ev-battery-battery-metals-tracker\/\"> the metals used in them<\/a>) of electric vehicles sold in more than 80 countries around the world, representing more than 90% of the global EV market.<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adamasintel.com\/tesla-model-3-battery-capacity-may-2019\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">latest report<\/a>&nbsp;by Toronto-based Adamas on global EV battery deployment in passenger vehicles should give Tesla skeptics, the ranks of which are still growing, pause.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla is simply miles ahead of the competition. On a MWh-basis, the Muskmobile is not just shaming US and European competitors, but also the <a href=\"https:\/\/mining.com\/web\/18-billion-electric-car-bubble-risk-bursting-china\/\">more than 400<\/a> EV manufacturers registered in China.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.miningintelligence.com\/posters\/global-battery-minerals-map\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"DOWNLOAD FREE BATTERY METALS MAP (opens in a new tab)\">DOWNLOAD FREE BATTERY METALS MAP<\/a><\/p>\n<p><cite>Map of major producing mines and mine development projects of minerals used in Lithium Ion Batteries. Commodities include Lithium, Graphite and Cobalt. Map includes locations of 240+ producing mines, 45 development projects, 110+ projects in economic assessment, and 40 suspended mines.<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In May this year, Tesla was responsible for 22% of all electric vehicle battery capacity deployed worldwide versus 18% a year ago according to Adamas data.<\/p>\n<p>The Model 3 alone represented 16% of battery power hitting roads compared to 4% for no.2 BYD (Build Your Dream), the Chinese EV leader backed by Warren&nbsp;Buffett. <\/p>\n<p>Teslas have always had bigger batteries than competitor cars to help with fast-charging and range and Adamas sees no slowdown in Tesla&#8217;s quest for battery power dominance:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>In the first five months of 2018, there was just a single month in which Tesla deployed over 1 GWh of EV battery capacity, while over the first five months of this year there have been three, speaking to the automaker\u2019s growing appetite for li-ion cells.<\/p>\n<p>From January through May of this year, over 7 GWh of battery capacity was deployed globally in Tesla EVs. Inferring from the company\u2019s strong Q3\/Q4 sales record, Tesla is conservatively on track to exceed 20 GWh deployed by 2019 year-end.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Model 3 alone represented 16% of electric vehicle battery capacity deployed globally in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1127235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127236,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127235\/revisions\/1127236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1127235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1127235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1127235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}