American Manganese Inc.: Tesla’s Gigafactory Sparks New Interest for Secure Lithium Ion Battery Raw Material Sources
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Mar 26, 2014 — Larry W. Reaugh, President and Chief Executive Officer of American Manganese Inc. , says that: “The recent (February 26, 2014) announcement by Tesla Motors of the imminent construction of a Lithium Ion Battery Gigafactory has raised the bar for electric vehicle production.” Initial production from the Gigafactory is scheduled for 2017, and full production scheduled for 2020. At full capacity, the facility would manufacture as many lithium ion batteries as the 2013 total world production.
