Tesla planning new Semi electric truck plant, battery factory in Nevada
Tesla's original gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada is getting a $3.6 billion makeover that will add two fresh facilities and thousands of additional jobs, the electric automaker has confirmed.
The electric car maker didn't provide a timeline for the expansion, but said one of the new factories will be the first high-volume Tesla Semi plant, while the other will be dedicated to producing 100 GWh of Tesla's in-house 4680 batteries annually - enough to produce 1.
"Along with other on-site vendors, we planned to hire 6,500 full-time team members over the next 10 years to build and ramp Gigafactory Nevada," Tesla said. Tesla began construction of the Sparks gigafactory in 2015, and since that time has invested more than $6.2 billion in it, the company said. To date, the Sparks factory has produced 7.3 billion battery cells, 1.5 million battery packs, 3.6 million drive units and one million energy modules since the facility opened in 2016.regular injuries, strained local emergency responders, a housing shortage and additional wear and tear on local roads caused by Tesla's presence.
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