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In half a month, two super factories were opened.
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On April 8, Beijing time, Tesla's Gigafactory Texas in Austin, Texas, was officially unveiled. Tesla's Berlin Gigafactory just debuted half a month ago, and the pace is very tight.
Tesla's Texas Gigafactory, which began construction in July 2020, initially invested $1.1 billion (and is expected to eventually exceed $10 billion, creating more than 20,000 jobs for the local area), covers 2,500 acres (more than 10 square kilometers), and has more than 10 million square feet (more than 900,000 square meters) of plant space.
It is planned to be the Model Y's manufacturing hub in the United States, and cyberruck will also be produced here.
According to Musk's mention at the opening ceremony, the factory will also produce roadster 2 sports cars, electric truck Semi, humanoid robot Optimus and even a self-driving taxi - tesla will form a self-driving fleet in the future. However, there is no specific timetable for this.
△ Opening ceremony site Cybertruck also debuted, a production version, plus the traditional rearview mirror
Counting this factory, Tesla currently has 6 super factories on 3 continents, and Tesla also clearly has high hopes for the Texas gigafactory, not only the factory area is huge (4 times that of the Shanghai gigafactory), there are many products planned to be produced, and Tesla's global headquarters has also moved from California.
In addition to the planned capacity of 500,000 Model Ys per year and an overall capacity of 1 million units, the plant may also become the world's largest battery factory in the future.
Behind this are the three key technologies tesla will promote at the Texas Gigafactory: the 4680 battery, the structured battery pack (CTC), and the one-piece die-cast front body.
Here will be the production of the first Model Y using the 4680 structural battery pack. Compared with the 2710 battery model, the cost of the Model Y with the new solution will be further reduced, and the production speed will continue to accelerate.
Overall, as the largest vehicle factory, the goal of the Texas Gigafactory is to accelerate Tesla's production capacity (the official theme of factory 2022 is "capacity climbing"). Including the compact layout of the factory, it is also to improve transportation and production efficiency).
Musk said that "Tesla is going to do things on a large scale", and in Tesla's definition, the Texas Gigafactory is also "a product of Tesla" and "it is the latest iteration of 'the machine that makes the machine'".
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