Tesla offers “giant contract” to responsible nickel miners – MINING.com

Elon Musk presenting Teslas fully autonomous strategy in 2019. (Image courtesy of Steve Jurvetson | Flickr Commons.)
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) boss Elon Musk is calling miners to produce more nickel, a key ingredient in the batteries that power his companys electric cars, and has offered a giant contract for a long period of time to any firm able to extracted it in an efficient, environmentally sustainable manner.
Musk noted on a second-quarter earnings call that the high price of electric car batt…

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