Tesla is planning a brand new facility named “Bobcat Undertaking” subsequent to Gigafactory Texas, in line with newly filed paperwork with the native municipality.
Electrek first revealed that Tesla is going to build its next Gigafactory in Austin round this time final 12 months.
Now a 12 months later, Tesla is already actually superior within the development venture of the huge manufacturing unit.
The automaker has snapped up lots of land for the venture, and now we study that they plan a brand new venture subsequent to it.
Tesla has filed paperwork with town of Austin for a brand new facility codenamed “Bobcat Undertaking.”
Business Journal Austin reported on the brand new submitting:
Paperwork lately filed with town of Austin point out Tesla Inc. plans one other facility on its land in jap Travis County. There aren’t too many particulars about what the ability could be used for, and venture representatives both declined to remark or couldn’t be reached by publication time. However a website plan filed April 30 for Tesla’s “Bobcat Undertaking” factors to a different industrial constructing rising off Harold Inexperienced Highway close to the corporate’s $1.1 billion gigafactory.
It’s not precisely clear the place the venture will probably be constructed since Tesla has acquired a lot land across the Gigafactory Texas venture.
Right here you may see the land bought by Tesla, in inexperienced:
The orange spot represents the place the corporate is at the moment constructing the primary constructing of Gigafactory Texas and the blue spot is the place development staff are at the moment engaged on the bottom.
A brand new drone flyover by Terra Manufacturing unit on YouTube exhibits the location in query:
In response to the paperwork, the brand new facility can cowl as a lot as 97 acres, however it doesn’t specify what it’s going for use for.
Tesla can also be anticipated to construct a battery cell manufacturing unit on the website, however that manufacturing capability is anticipated to be deployed in one of many major buildings of the beforehand submitted Gigafactory Texas venture.
The automaker is rumored to be planning lots of installations on the website in Texas, and CEO Elon Musk even stated that Tesla Gigafactory Austin is going to be an “ecological paradise” open to the public for visits.
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