Supplies for Tesla’s 4680 cell have been lately delivered to Gigafactory Texas, hinting that the EV maker could already be making ready to start out take a look at manufacturing of its customized batteries for subsequent 12 months.
In drone operator Jeff Roberts’ current video, two truckloads of battery manufacturing gear entered the storage space of Tesla Giga Texas. The bins have been labeled Cathode Line 1 and Anode Line 1.
Roberts noticed that the Anode Line 1 bins have been later pushed towards the battery cell manufacturing space of the ability. He believes that Tesla has began putting in the gear for the 4680 cell manufacturing line at Giga Texas.
Throughout the Q2 2021 earnings name, Elon Musk shared that Tesla was anticipating huge gear to reach for high-volume cell manufacturing in Austin and Berlin. Roberts’ video means that the gear has lastly arrived at Giga Texas. Comparable bins or shipments could also be delivered to Giga Berlin quickly, too.
“Meantime, we now have a large quantity of kit on order and arriving for the high-volume cell manufacturing in Austin and Berlin. However clearly, given what we’ve discovered with the pilot plant, which is in Fremont, which is admittedly fairly an enormous plant by most requirements, we must modify a bunch of that gear. So it gained’t be capable to begin instantly,” Musk mentioned.
Andrew Baglino, Tesla’s Vice President of Powertrain and Vitality Engineering, added that the corporate would set up gear able to producing 100 GWh value of cells. He estimated that Tesla might obtain its 100 GWh purpose by the top of 2022. For perspective, Giga Nevada is at present producing about 40 GWh per 12 months.
Tesla’s 4680 pilot line at Kato Highway close to the Fremont Manufacturing unit appears to be progressing fairly properly. On the finish of September, the corporate began a hiring ramp for the 4680 pilot line. The hiring ramp urged that Tesla discovered a possible answer for the calendaring concern Elon Musk briefly mentioned on the Q2 earnings name.
Final month, Tesla’s longtime battery companion Panasonic offered the 4680 lithium ion cells it might be producing for Tesla. Panasonic’s reveal additionally urged that Tesla was able to enter the following stage in 4680 cell manufacturing.
Throughout the Q3 2021 earnings name, Baglino estimated that Tesla may begin testing autos geared up with 4680 cells as early as subsequent 12 months. Tesla goals to provide Mannequin Y autos with structural battery packs and 4680 cells as soon as Giga Texas and Giga Berlin are operational.
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