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Gigafactory Nevada

Gigafactory Nevada
Drone view of Gigafactory Nevada in December 2019
Map
Built2014–2017[1]
OperatedJanuary 2016 (2016-01)[2]
LocationStorey County, Nevada, United States
Coordinates39°32′17″N 119°26′24″W / 39.538°N 119.440°W / 39.538; -119.440
Industry
Products
Employees12,000 (2022)[3]
Area
  • Floor area: 5,400,000 sq ft (500,000 m2)[4]
  • Land: 4.5 sq mi (12 km2; 2,900 acres)[5]
Owner(s)Tesla, Inc.
Websitetesla.com/giga-nevada

Gigafactory Nevada (also known as Giga Nevada or Gigafactory 1)[6] is a lithium-ion battery and electric vehicle component factory in Storey County, Nevada, United States.[7][8][9] The facility, located east of Reno, is owned and operated by Tesla, Inc. The factory supplies battery packs and drivetrain components (including motors) for the company's electric vehicles, produces the Tesla Powerwall home energy storage device, and assembles the Tesla Semi.[10] It is the largest (by land area) and the first Tesla Gigafactory in the world. If fully built out, the building will have the largest footprint in the world.[11]

The facility is located at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (TRIC) and employed around 7,000 people at the end of 2018,[3] with a goal of hiring thousands more with a total of nearly 10,000 statewide. The factory started limited production of the Tesla Powerwall home energy storage device in January 2016[12] using battery cells produced elsewhere and began mass production of cells in January 2017.[13] The grand opening event was held on July 29, 2016.[14]

The factory has been designed to become entirely energy self-reliant. Tesla intends to power the structure through a combination of on-site solar, wind and geo-thermal sources.[15] According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, one hundred factories like Giga Nevada would be necessary to transition the world to sustainable energy consumption without any increase in production density such as switching to a dry electrode coating process.[16]

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  2. ^ Johnston, Adam (January 8, 2016). "Tesla Starts Off 2016 By Producing & Delivering Powerwall". CleanTechnica. Archived from the original on January 8, 2017. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Tesla Annual Report (July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019)" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on October 31, 2019. Retrieved January 1, 2020.
  4. ^ "Continuing Our Investment in Nevada". Tesla. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  5. ^ Bond, Noah (September 3, 2019). "MADE IN NEVADA: Tesla". www.kolotv.com. 8abc. Archived from the original on November 10, 2019.
  6. ^ Musk, Elon [@elonmusk] (January 25, 2020). "Going with nomenclature of Giga [most widely understood location name] vs Giga #, so Giga Shanghai, Giga Nevada, Giga New York & Giga Berlin" (Tweet). Retrieved January 26, 2020 – via Twitter.
  7. ^ "Elon Musk Debuts the Tesla Powerwall". YouTube. April 30, 2015. Archived from the original on March 10, 2021. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
  8. ^ "Tahoe Reno Industrial Center". Archived from the original on October 3, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
  9. ^ Wald, Matthew L. (September 4, 2014). "Nevada a Winner in Tesla's Battery Contest". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 23, 2017. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
  10. ^ "Tesla to Cut Price on Chinese Model 3 With CATL Battery". Bloomberg.com. October 1, 2020. Archived from the original on October 31, 2020. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  11. ^ O'Kane, Sean (November 30, 2018). "Tesla will live and die by the Gigafactory". The Verge. Archived from the original on December 5, 2018. Retrieved December 4, 2018.
  12. ^ Johnston, Adam (January 8, 2016). "Tesla Starts Off 2016 By Producing & Delivering Powerwall". CleanTechnica. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  13. ^ Cite error: The named reference bloo2017-01-04 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  14. ^ "Tesla sets July 29 date for Gigafactory Grand Opening event". Teslarati. May 27, 2016. Archived from the original on May 29, 2016. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
  15. ^ Musk, Elon (April 2017). "Elon Musk: The future we're building – and boring". TED Talk. Event occurs at [time needed]. Archived from the original on May 1, 2017. Retrieved July 2, 2017.
  16. ^ "Welcome to the Gigafactory – Before the Flood". YouTube. February 2020. Event occurs at 58:18–59:00. Archived from the original on November 15, 2019. Retrieved October 16, 2020.

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