{"id":556785,"date":"2023-02-20T08:59:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T03:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=556785"},"modified":"2023-02-20T09:16:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T03:46:49","slug":"tesla-considering-takeover-of-battery-metals-miner-sigma-lithium-corp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tesla-considering-takeover-of-battery-metals-miner-sigma-lithium-corp\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla considering takeover of battery-metals miner Sigma Lithium Corp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla Inc. has been weighing a takeover of battery-metals miner Sigma Lithium Corp., people with knowledge of the matter said, amid rampant demand for the metal used in electric vehicle batteries.<\/p>\n<p>The EV maker run by Elon Musk has been speaking with potential advisers about a bid, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing confidential information. Sigma Lithium is one of multiple mining options Tesla is exploring as it mulls its own refining, one of the people said.<\/p>\n<p>Sigma\u2019s US shares surged more than 25% in aftermarket trading.<\/p>\n<p>Sigma Lithium\u2019s biggest shareholder has been exploring a potential sale of the company and gauging interest from miners and carmakers, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla Inc. has been weighing a takeover of battery-metals miner Sigma Lithium Corp., people with knowledge of the matter said, amid rampant demand for the metal used in electric vehicle batteries. The EV maker run by Elon Musk has been speaking with potential advisers about a bid, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing confidential information. Sigma Lithium is one of multiple mining options Tesla is exploring as it mulls its own refining, one of the people said. Sigma\u2019s US shares surged more than 25% in aftermarket trading. Sigma Lithium\u2019s biggest shareholder has been exploring a potential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}