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Tesla Motors tripled its land area under "Gigafabriku Battery"
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Corporation Tesla, it seems, is going to significantly increase production capacity of its future "Gigafabriki batteries," which is already quite large. Over the past few months the company to purchase approximately 200,000 m 2 sup> in addition to the main plot of land with an area of 100 000 m 2 sup>, bought in 2014. The agreement with the authorities of the district provided the opportunity to purchase additional land. It is worth noting that in Reno, Storey County, Nevada , virtually no industry, so that the initiative was greeted by Tesla officials with pleasure.
At Tesla - an open line of credit that allows you to receive significant loans. Recently, компания received about $ 750 million to continue and expand activities. Money Tesla needed to develop a new range of relatively inexpensive electric vehicles.
Most of the area of land purchased - a buffer zone, where there will be built nothing but solar panels, to ensure the operation of the enterprise. It is worth recalling that Nevada - pretty desert state, where high solar activity. On the remaining area under construction company, which will supply batteries for electric vehicles, household and industrial power systems.
The very "gigafabrika" cost the company $ 5 billion, the company is a very important part of the company's plan to increase production to 500,000 electric vehicles a year, as well as reducing the cost of batteries by 30%. About 25% of the industrial capacity of the enterprise will be used for the development of batteries that will be installed in domestic and industrial power systems, shown Tesla earlier .
The company is built in phases. It is now ready to metal and roof .
"Gigafabrika" will begin to produce the batteries at the end of 2016. By 2020 the factory will expand, and the overall performance of the company will be 50 GWh batteries per year. This plant in Nevada will make batteries more than all the other companies produce the world's population.
To complete the construction of the factory will employ around 6,500 people. State authorities have provided about $ 1, 3 billion investment.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/259030/
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