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[Understand Chedi Original Industry] According to foreign media (electrek) reports, recently, Tesla submitted an application to Austin, Texas, USA to expand the Texas Gigafactory. , the expansion area reaches 500,000 square feet (approximately 46,500 square meters).
Source: electrek
This means that the 500,000-square-foot expansion project will provide more space for Tesla to produce electric vehicles . Considering that the Texas Gigafactory has more than one floor, if the expansion project is approved, it is expected to eventually provide at least 1 million square feet (nearly 100,000 square meters) of work space for Tesla's Texas factory.
Tesla’s Texas Gigafactory is the world’s largest automobile factory in history
It is worth mentioning that on April 8 this year, at the opening ceremony of Tesla’s Texas Gigafactory, Tesla CEO Musk revealed, "Tesla's Texas Gigafactory is the world's largest automobile factory in history, covering an area of more than 12,000 acres (8 million square meters), which is three times the size of the U.S. Pentagon. If the factory is erected, it will The height is much higher than the world’s tallest Burj Khalifa, Burj Khalifa, and it is also the largest of the Gigafactory that Tesla has confirmed.”
When describing how big this factory is, Musk said humorously, "According to our calculations, you can fit 194 billion hamsters into this building."
The Texas Super Factory aggregates all functions into one building , which can greatly improve production efficiency
In addition, Tesla has also shown the distribution of various workshops within its Texas Super Factory. At that time, Musk revealed that the Texas Gigafactory was manufacturing 4680 batteries. He proudly said that the Texas factory would become the largest battery factory in the world in the future.
Recently, according to foreign media reports, Tesla has increased the production capacity of the Texas Gigafactory to produce thousands of vehicles per week. In addition to the original standard battery life version, the production of Model Y has now also included a long battery life version. Production of vehicle models.
Musk has previously revealed that the main task of the Texas Gigafactory in 2022 is to ramp up production capacity, while 2023 will be Tesla's new product year., the Texas Gigafactory will begin mass production of Cybertruck, Roadster 2 and Semi , In addition, Version 1 of the Tesla robot Tesla Bot Optimus is expected to be put into production.
