Four months after an unexpected ice storm caused much of the Texas power grid to crash, state regulators warned this week that a June heat wave is causing a “high number of forced generation outages.”
“We need to jam on the accelerator here,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said during a recent online seminar outlining the administration’s desire to promote battery electric vehicles — with an emphasis on designing, engineering and producing them domestically. In a new National Blueprint for Lithium Batteries, the Department of Energy has laid out a variety of steps to promote more U.S. production. That starts with greater access to raw materials. Internally, the administration has been debating whether to promote greater domestic mining or ally with friendly trade partners, such as Canada and Australia, to build up stocks of critical raw materials like lithium, cobalt and nickel.
Tesla’s Gigafactory in Reno, Nevada, is today one of the world’s largest sources of lithium-ion batteries and will add capacity alongside the assembly plant it is erecting in Texas, with CEO Elon Musk indicating other production operations will follow.
Did the oil lobby bankroll this piece? Or was it the Koch family?
MSNBC Helllloooo! Infrastructure bill?
MSNBC The idea is a great one. However the application not so much. It would take a way from be corporate profits.
Texas doesn’t want Texans to buy electric vehicles because their electric grid won’t handle it
NBC News is just now starting to catch on to the potential HUGE problem coming.
MSNBC I'm starting to think about leaving texas, as they flail with this power grid stuff
MSNBC One More Time: If ElonMusk was really serious about jumpstarting EV adoption, he would have placed the new Tesla truck factory in Tulsa. That's where the home office of QuikTrip is.