general discussion, page-1220

Did anyone see the shareholder feedback for Tesla over the weekend?

On track for 2m vehicles this year and an end of decade target of 20m.

Their vehicles have large amounts of various metals not least of which is aluminium.

The aluminium is actually an alloy which includes a substantial amount of magnesium (to harden the alloy).

If the casting are 200kg in total and 10% is magnesium then this years usage of Mg will be 2m x 20kg let alone the next seven years to end of decade.

I don't know where they are going to get the magnesium from even with a multi site execution of LMG tech.