Pininfarina-designed battery production plant planned for Wales
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Aug 13, 2020 09:54AM
"The 2.5 million square foot (over 232,000 sq m) GigaPlant will have a production capacity of up to 30 gigawatt-hours per year and create up to 3,500 jobs in the area. Construction is due to start in early 2021 for a target opening in 2023."
Pay attention to that last part: a target opening in 20203.
When you peruse the multiple news stories about battery plants and gigafactory battery plants throughout the world, not just this one scheduled for Wales in the U.K., you will see that planned "target opening" date of 2023 again and again.
Going back to an article in the Elko Daily Free Press by Adella Harding from 5 December 2019 she reported:
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“The permitting process is progressing as planned, and the schedule to receive federal approval for construction and operations remains on target for December 2020,” said Alexi Zawadzki, president of North American operations for Lithium Americas Corp. and chief executive officer of subsidiary Lithium Nevada Corp.
He said the target is to begin project construction in 2021 and begin production in late 2022 or early 2023.
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So you see the importance of that 2023 date. It corresponds nicely with the timing presently theorized for production from the LAC Thacker Pass mine.
Look at every proposed new battery plant and gigafactory battery plant proposal with that 2023 time frame in mind. In addition, of course, there is the plan for LAC to have it's own battery manufacturing facility on campus at Thacker Pass.
Regardless of where the batteries are built, it seems abundantly clear that LAC will be on line at a time when the need for lithium carbonate and lithium hydorxide will be significantly increased from its present depressed levels.
https://newatlas.com/automotive/britishvolt-gigaplant-amte-power-electric-vehicle-batteries/