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Tesla's Circular Economy Strategy to Recycle, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose and Recover Batteries

In: Recycling Strategy and Challenges Associated with Waste Management Towards Sustaining the World

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  • Michael Naor

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The purpose of this research is to explore how Tesla is capable to materialize the circular economy futuristic vision. Specifically, it explains how batteries are recycled, reduced, reused, repurposed, and recovered in order to preserve raw materials and dimmish toxic waste disposal. Tesla extends traveling distance by supercharging stations and repurpose degraded batteries for second-life applications to energize home appliances with its solar panels. Tesla intends to substantially diminish the costs of battery production while increasing range by developing an innovative 4680 tab-less cobalt-free battery. An insight emerging from the study is that the fundamental principles upon the operations management field was established such as the concept of focused factory and Goldratt's theory of constraints stay valid and are applicable towards establishing sustainable manufacturing process at the 21st century.

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  • Michael Naor, 2023. "Tesla's Circular Economy Strategy to Recycle, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose and Recover Batteries," Chapters, in: Hosam M. Saleh & Amal I. Hassan (ed.), Recycling Strategy and Challenges Associated with Waste Management Towards Sustaining the World, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:281047
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.107256
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    Keywords

    tesla; circular economy; recycle; reduce; reuse; repurpose; recover;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling

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