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 accordance with a weblog submit revealed Tuesday.
The corporate formally delivered the primary of its long-delayed electrical Semi vans to PepsiCo in December, however it seems Tesla is able to considerably broaden its manufacturing of the brand new automobile. Nevertheless, Tesla’s weblog submit doesn’t specify what number of vans the manufacturing facility may make regularly or when it’s anticipated to open, so it is likely to 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 could have “capability to supply sufficient batteries for two million mild obligation automobiles yearly,” in addition to add 3,000 new workers to the ability. For context, the corporate says that the Gigafactory presently produces upwards of 37 GWh of batteries per 12 months, sufficient for round 500,000 automobiles.