Cacería de Litio en Suramérica

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00:002,900 tons of lithium, that is the amount of raw material for a month

00:05that the Tesla company requires for the manufacture of its electric cars.

00:09Just so you have an idea, it would be like gathering 4,833 elephants in the same space

00:16or filling 232 football stadiums with beach sand.

00:21That would give us an approximate idea of the volume of raw material

00:25that this company requires to function normally.

00:29If we talk about such quantities of inputs, there must be a good incentive.

00:34And indeed there is, for each self-made car a net profit of $ 10,000 is obtained.

00:40We are talking about a monthly production of about 100,000 vehicles.

00:44Then Tesla could earn around $ 1,000 million a month.

00:50A round business, taking into account that raw material costs about $ 200 million a month.

00:58To meet those figures in a year, Elon Musk would have to have 35,000 tons of lithium.

01:05But it would be a much greater amount in 2030

01:09when the South African magnate plans to manufacture 20 million vehicles.

01:14And where do you think you are going to get all that lithium?

01:18In Australia?

01:20Well, no.

01:22The largest reserves of this mineral worldwide are in Bolivia, Argentina and Chile.

01:28It is what is known as the lithium triangle.

01:30It is estimated that these three countries concentrate between 65% and 85% of all lithium in the world.

01:40It is not surprising that Musk is such a good friend of someone like the current president of Argentina, Javier Milleo.

01:48As the expression says, business art business.

01:52In the hunting of South American lithium, Elon Musk profiles himself as the main predator.

01:57There seems to be no room for philanthropy on his agenda.