Tesla and Panasonic have signed an agreement on the construction of "gigafabriki" batteries Bashny.Net

Today, Elon Musk Tesla сделала first practical step towards the construction of the world's largest factories of lithium-ion batteries, which plans Tesla called & quot; gigafabrikoy a > & quot ;. Partner for the construction of the factory will be the corporation Panasonic - one of the world's leading battery manufacturers. By 2020, the factory would produce battery cells 35 gigawatt-hours per year and finished batteries 50 gigawatt-hours.





Panasonic will be responsible for the equipment for the production of cell batteries. Tesla will provide a factory building premises and the entire infrastructure, and also will assemble battery of cells. The factory will produce batteries of the most basic raw material - lithium, aluminum, copper, chemicals for the manufacture of the electrolyte. State factories will be 6,500 workers.

The main purpose of "gigafabriki" - to meet the demand for batteries for the first truly mass-model electric Tesla Model 3 , which will cost 35,000 dollars. Its sales should begin in 2017. In addition, the batteries manufactured at the factory will be used in alternative energy, most likely in the first client "gigafabriki" will mask energy company Solar City. Among Tesla predict that big demand for batteries in the next few years, even though the construction of a huge plant, plan to continue to purchase batteries Panasonic, manufactured in Japan in other factories. Manual Panasonic just foresees huge market prospects of electric vehicles. Now the Japanese company has a market share of batteries for vehicles in 39%, mainly due to the fact that the cells of this company are already used in electric Tesla.



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