Tesla gigafactory china size. Tesla won the long term lease for 86 hectares 210 acres of land in lingang shanghai on 17 october. Tesla inc said on thursday it signed an agreement with lenders in china for a 12 month facility of up to 35 billion yuan 52136 million for its gigafactory in shanghai. Tesla also plans to build model y along with model 3 at gigafactory 3 in china.
The first point is pretty much represented by a comparison of teslas fremont factory and gigafactory shanghai. The massive size of both gigafactory nevada and texas are immediately apparent whereas gigafactories in berlin and shanghai are much smaller. Teslas gigafactory in china which equals to the size of 121 football fields may begin production within days.
Tesla shanghai was the only bidder with its bid of 973 million chinese yuan for the 50 year lease covering the 864885 square metre 865 hectare site with the capital coming from local chinese banks. Satellite images show that tesla could fit a building the size of the planned gigafacoty 1 at its new site in china. Project contractor is china construction third engineering bureau co ltd a unit of state owned china state construction.
Today the gigafactory produces model 3 electric motors and battery packs in addition to teslas energy storage products powerwall and powerpack. The two facilities are quite comparable in size but it is not too difficult to. The entire gigafactory 3 complex has a size of 865000 square meters.
The tesla gigafactory was born out of necessity and will supply enough batteries to support teslas projected vehicle demand. The news comes just 10 months after ground was broken for the 2billion 155. Tesla model 3 right hand drive is coming to the uk market in may says elon musk.
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