Tesla plans $3.6 bln Nevada expansion to make Semi truck, battery cells

A view shows the Tesla logo on the hood of a car in Oslo, Norway Nov. 10, 2022. REUTERS/Victoria Klestysaid on Tuesday it would invest more than $3.6 billion to expand its Nevada Gigafactory complex with two new factories, one to mass produce its long-delayed Semi electric truck and the other to make its new 4680 battery cell.

The cell plant would be able to make enough batteries for 2 million light-duty vehicles annually, including batteries using the 4680-type cell. The 4680 is key to Tesla meeting a goal of halving battery costs and ramping up battery production nearly 100-fold by 2030. Together, the facilities will employ about 3,000 people, extending the electric vehicle maker's complex east of Reno, where it runs a battery joint venture with Japan's Panasonic CorpPanasonic currently supplies cells to the gigafactory, and Tesla assembles them into battery packs there.

Tesla has struggled to ramp up production of the 4680 at its factories in Fremont, California, and Austin, Texas.the dry-coating technique used to produce the bigger cells in these batteries is new and unproven and the company has been having trouble scaling up manufacturing to the point where the big cost savings kick in.

The move suggests Tesla is finally committing to large-scale production of the Semi, which was initially supposed to begin rolling out of factory doors in 2019. Tesla made the first Semi deliveries in December to PepsiCoOther customers that have ordered Semis include Brewer Anheuser-Busch

And what/where are they going to place their refuse? Remember it is ecologically dangerous!

Hydrogen is the future of heavy transport. Musk should cooperate with companies like Ballard or Plug Power instead of using batteries.

Trucks will be powered by hydrogen in future, not batteries. Musk is on the wrong path.

ItWasACoup Elon plans to spend his way out of debt

lol. bookmarked

Too bad they can’t make water.

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