On April 7, local time in the United States (April 8, Beijing time), Tesla held the opening ceremony of the Texas Gigafactory and delivered the first Tesla Model Y models produced by the factory. Starting now, Tesla officially owns six gigafactories across three continents and moves its global headquarters to Austin, Texas. At the same time, the Cybertruck real car was unveiled again, causing a round of applause from the audience. At the opening ceremony, Tesla CEO Elon Musk drove the Tesla electric sports car Roadster to the stage.
In this speech, he said that the Texas Gigafactory is the world's largest auto factory, covering an area of more than 12,000 acres, three times the size of the Pentagon in the United States, and it is also the largest of the gigafactories that Tesla has identified so far.
Not only does it have the world's largest die-casting machine, the Texas Gigafactory also features an all-in-one compact layout that closely connects the various shop floors, just like the chip design, greatly improving transportation and productivity. "The raw material comes in from one side, and after a series of processing, the car comes out from the other side." Musk described it this way.
The capacity of the Texas Gigafactory will be increased to 1 million units per year, of which the Model Y single product will reach 500,000 units per year, and will also bring the three core process innovations of 4680 batteries, structural battery packs and integrated die-cast front body.
Musk also revealed that the theme of the Texas factory in 2022 is capacity climbing, and 2023 will be Tesla's new product year, the Texas Gigafactory will begin mass production of Cybercruck, Roadster 2 and Semi, in addition to Tesla Bot Optimus Version 1 version will be expected to be put into production, and the Texas Gigafactory may become the world's largest battery production plant in the future.
At the end of the opening ceremony, Tesla's chief designer Franz took the stage in a Cyberteruck to show the public its door-handleless design. "We don't need door handles, the car will know when you need to open the door." Musk said.
Musk said tesla is going to do "massive" things: "To make the world transition to sustainable energy, it has to be so large... This is something that no other car factory in history has ever done. ”
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