Tesla’s new $3.6 billion Nevada funding features a ‘high-volume’ Semi manufacturing facility
Tesla is investing greater than $3.6 billion into its Reno, Nevada Gigafactory, and with a part of the money, it plans to construct its “first high-volume Semi manufacturing facility,” in response to a weblog publish printed Tuesday.
The corporate formally delivered the primary of its long-delayed electrical Semi vehicles to PepsiCo in December, nevertheless it seems Tesla is able to considerably develop its manufacturing of the brand new automobile. Nonetheless, Tesla’s weblog publish doesn’t specify what number of vehicles the manufacturing facility would possibly make frequently or when it’s anticipated to open, so it may be awhile earlier than that prime quantity kicks in.
Along with the Semi manufacturing facility, Tesla needs to make use of the Nevada funding to construct a 100 GWh 4680 battery cell manufacturing facility, which the corporate says can have “capability to provide sufficient batteries for two million gentle responsibility automobiles yearly,” in addition to add 3,000 new staff to the power. For context, the corporate says that the Gigafactory at present produces upwards of 37 GWh of batteries per yr, sufficient for round 500,000 automobiles.
