It revealed Teslachefen Elon Musk in a telephone press conference that otherwise focused on the acquisition of the German verkstadskoncernen Grohmann Engineering, entering the site Electrek.
Tesla’s first Gigafactory in the US and only produce lithium-ion batteries which are of very great importance for Tesla’s electric cars.
Now comes the second Gigafactory will be somewhere in Europe, and the manufacture of both batteries and cars.
” We want to have an integrated “Gigafactory 2″ with both the production of batteries and cars, ” said Elon Musk.
Decision next year: Here, the factory should be built
However, he told us nothing about where this new – and european – Gigafactory-factory is to be located. The decision on the site will be taken next year, according to Elon Musk.
When production of the Tesla Model 3 will begin get started in earnest next year, Tesla will have a better idea of where the next Gigafactory will be located, according to Elon Musk.
Since the first european Gigafactory plant very well get the successor.
– There is no doubt that the Tesla in the long term will have maybe two or three places in the vehicle and battertillverkning in Europe, ” said Elon Music.
The first sod for the giant Gigafactory-the building of 550,000 square meters in the u.s. state of Nevada, was taken in november, 2014.
“the Production of battery cells is expected to begin at the end of this year,” writes Tesla.
Full capacity in 2018 in Nevada-the factory
According to Tesla’s coming Gigafactory in Nevada to reach full capacity in 2018 and then produce more lithium ion batteries annually than were produced worldwide in 2013.
the Name Gigafactory comes from the factory’s planned annual batteritillverkningskapacitet of 35 gigawatt-hours (GWh). The prefix “giga” stands for a billion.
“A GWh is equivalent to generate (or consume) one billion watts in an hour, which is a million times more than 1 kWh,” writes Tesla.
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