This is an interesting article from the Tesla chair:"She told...

This is an interesting article from the Tesla chair:

"She told the Clean Energy Summit in Sydney she believes Australia’s greatest opportunity this century is to be a global leader in the battery supply chain, building on its resources of lithium and other minerals"

Huge opportunity for Australia (and ITM and many others) to be the reliable/sustainable supplier of choice for battery materials! Lets get to work!

Govts both federal and state have a big role to play in opening the doors (certainly not closing them) to get this properly underway and unleash the massive investment. And this time (as opposed to LNG export, where participants pay no tax and we pay global prices for gas) we ensure there is a return to the Australian tax payer, to pay down our debt, reduce taxes for everyday Australian's and give better access to EV's and energy transition solutions.


Seize the real opportunity in lithium:Denholm
Angela Macdonald-SmithSenior resources writer
Updated Jul 19, 2022 – 2.02pm,first published at 11.53am
Tesla chairman Robyn Denholm says the number of Teslas in Australia could double by the end of the year amid rapid take-up of batteries in homes and businesses, as she called for an expansion in battery minerals and a national plan to meet the 2030 emissions reduction target.Ms Denholm also urged the government to introduce fuel efficiency standards to help drive the uptake of electric vehicles, pointing to the example set by New Zealand, where new policies have helped almost triple EV sales in a little over a year.She told the Clean Energy Summit in Sydney she believes Australia’s greatest opportunity this century is to be a global leader in the battery supply chain, building on its resources of lithium and other minerals.Robyn Denholm: “To meet the challenge of climate change, this entire industry needs to scale at sprinting pace.” Lucas Jarvis“I can’t think of a technology that is more important than lithium-ion batteries right now,” she said.“The world cannot build battery cells fast enough. It may be the rate-limiting actor for tackling climate change.”Ms Denholm said Tesla expected to need more than 3 terawatt/hours of batteries for its worldwide electric cars and battery storage fleet by 2030, which is triple the total industry output of 1 TWh today.“To meet the challenge of climate change, this entire industry needs to scale at sprinting pace,” said Ms Denholm, who is also chairman of the Tech Council of Australia.She called on state and federal governments to quickly approve mining projects to help Australia take a world-leading position. She pointed to a “classic opportunity” for public-private partnerships in the area.Ms Denholm also called for a national plan to implement the Australian Energy Market Operator’s blueprint for the power grid, to allow for the rapid connection of new renewables and ease the way for the exit of coal power plants.But she said reforms to the National Electricity Market structure through the proposed capacity mechanism must not support fossil fuel plants but instead provide support for technologies needed to make wind and solar power reliable.“Keeping an eye on the rearview mirror will simply encourage us to not stick to our plan, and we are already late to the transition party,” she said.“We only get one shot getting to zero by 2050, and these next seven years will make a huge difference.”Stricter vehicle fuel emissions standards were also needed, as well as increased efforts for the build-out of electric vehicle charging infrastructure.Ms Denholm blamed Australia’s lagging record on the uptake of electric vehicles – only 2 per cent of new car sales – largely on the lack of fuel efficiency standards, and said Australia should be looking to New Zealand for a lesson in how to move forward.“We have seen state governments starting to lead the way, but without national standards progress will be held back. It’s time for fuel efficiency standards in Australia, and they must be strong standards,” she said.“I’m hopeful that the new federal government will bring Australia up to par.”New Zealand had been in a similar position to Australia until recently, but its introduction of a clean car discount scheme had resulted in a near-tripling of electric vehicle sales in just over a year, Ms Denholm said.It was also introducing “sensible” fuel efficiency standards, which would result in it catching up to European standards within six years.“As petrol prices continue to skyrocket, it has never made more economic sense to go electric,” she said, estimating that a Tesla model 3 could be fuelled at a cost of just $1.50 a day for the 40 kilometres a day travelled by an average Australian vehicle, using green electricity from the grid, or “next to free” if charging from solar.In the past three years, Tesla has had a sixfold increase in installations of batteries in Australia, where it has 931 megawatt/hours of utility scale storage, Ms Denholm said.About 33,000 Powerwall batteries have been installed in homes and businesses in the past three years, while the local fleet of Tesla cars numbers more than 26,500.“I wouldn’t be surprised if we double that number by the end of the year,” she told the conference.