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Details of the first stage of construction "Gigafabriki batteries» Tesla
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At that time, as Elon Musk announces new projects, for example, Hyperloop, his other projects are becoming more real. One such project, Gigafabrika batteries, has moved from the stage to the contracts underway.
Here, for example, you can see main stages of construction of the facility, with prices for every stage . Tesla is now preparing for the establishment of a working area factory, with the erection of steel structures. Best performance will be achieved in 2020, with the creation of 500,000 batteries per year. In this project to create a factory not only expensive, but very expensive.
The total project cost is approximately 5 milliaradov USD . However, only 2 billion will be provided of the Tesla, the rest is planned to receive as an investment from partners and subsidies from the government.
Creating factory has already begun, and only the first phase of the creation of metal structures will cost $ 15 million. Work on this phase, which began in December, should be completed by June. In the course of the work necessary to remove about 107,037 cubic meters of soil to create a construction site, plus another 152,910 cubic meters of soil to create retention basins. BuildZoom estimated for this work will need 200 trucks that will work every day for 4 months.
The first battery descend from the conveyor factory in 2017, but at full capacity production will be released no earlier than 2020. Up to this point have to do a lot of work.
It has already been announced that Tesla's main partner in this project, in addition to the state government, will by Panasonic. The company will be responsible for the equipment used for the production of cell batteries. The company Tesla will build the entire plant, including infrastructure networks, and will collect the batteries from Panasonic created cells.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/244408/