The Tesla Gigafactory is will be the largest factory in the world (when fully built) where businessman, visionary and the first man of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk, will produce lithium-ion batteries. The factory is located in Nevada, USA, in the middle of nowhere, and today saw its grand opening, to which Musk invited influential individuals and some buyers of the Tesla Model S. The massive facility is still unfinished (14 percent of the planned, or the first of eight parts, is currently built ), and the plant is expected to breathe with full lungs in 2020, when in terms of usable area it will be the largest building in the world!
Just opened factory Tesla Gigafactory will become in the future the largest building and factory in the world in terms of surface area (it will cover 13 square kilometers) and the second largest in terms of space (177,000 square meters; it will be surpassed only by the Boeing aircraft factory in Everett, USA).
The factory to which Elon Musk bet huge, is located in Nevada, in the middle of the desert, a company Tesla Motors and in the end it will make it easier for approx. five billion US dollars. Although on this day she experienced grand opening, but the construction (approx. thousand workers are working on the building) is only at the beginning, somewhere at 14 percent (although they are two years ahead of schedule), regardless, they are already producing electrical modules for the home there, namely Powerwall (battery intended for storing electrical energy) and Powerpack (a battery that attaches to the wall and connects to the solar cells).
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It will be fully operational at the latest in 2020, when, according to Elon Musk, they should do more here lithium-ion batteries (they should produce 35 gigawatt hours of energy, even in 2020 150 GWh annually), as the whole world did in 2013, which should cut the price of batteries by approx. 30 percent, and as a result should also fall the price of Tesla electric cars.
With the pace of the plant, which will be entirely powered by renewable energy sources (solar cells on the roof, Wind power plant shoot away), they will be able to equip annually half a million electric cars.
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