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Tesla hit by battery shortage amid rallying lithium, cobalt, nickel prices – MINING.COM – MINING.com

CEO Elon Musk says Tesla doesn’t have enough batteries to put new products like the Semi heavy duty truck into production.

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The main reason we have not accelerated new products like the Tesla Semi is that we simply don’t have enough cells built. We could easily go into the production of the Semi, but we don’t have enough cells for it right now.  
Musk said while the Semi does not cost five times more than a passenger car it does require five times the number of cells, which means the company will focus on producing cars until it could bring its own battery technology, announced last year, into production:
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