In 2022, the price of lithium, the raw material for power batteries, soared. This led to the idea of self-sufficiency and“Lithium freedom” for many car companies, including Tesla. 

     But Tesla is not idealistic. He started building a lithium refinery in the US Investment Corporation, which officially opened in May. 

   On May 8, local time, Tesla CEO Musk and his Governor of Texas Greg Abbott attended the groundbreaking ceremony for Tesla's new lithium refinery in the state's Corpus Christi, tesla plans to invest $375 million in the plant. Tesla plans to complete construction of the plant next year and then go into full production in about a year, according to the company. Tesla aims to produce enough battery-grade lithium at the plant to supply 1M cars a year and produce more lithium than other North n refineries combined. When it comes to lithium-ion batteries, they are closely related to linear motors, because many of the devices used in lithium-ion battery production incorporate linear motors, such as linear-motor-enabled lithium-ion battery winding devices, the principle is that the linear motor is used to drive the retractable mechanism to complete the needle-in and needle-out operation of the winding mechanism, which ensures the rationality of the design and monitors the working tension of the winding mechanism through the tension monitoring device, it is convenient to control the winding process and greatly improves the working accuracy of the winding device. The winding device with linear motor is usually used for winding square lithium battery. 

      Kunshan has been improving the efficiency and productivity of complex manufacturing processes for more than a decade, it launched the Tongmao linear motor, linear module, linear sliding platform, voice coil motor, voice coil module and other products have been highly trusted by customers at home and abroad. 

      This article was originally published by Kunshan Tongmao Electronics Co. , Ltd. (www.tmmotion.com ) .