Tesla Gigafactory Texas has achieved a brand new manufacturing milestone of 4,000 vehicles in per week, however the manufacturing unit trails behind Gigafactory Berlin in its pleasant manufacturing ramp-up competitors.

The automaker has been concurrently ramping up two main factories, Gigafactory Berlin and Gigafactory Texas, to quantity manufacturing on the identical time.

It created a pleasant competitors between the 2.

When ramping up a brand new car to quantity manufacturing at a brand new manufacturing unit, Tesla usually considers 5,000 models per week to be the aim.

Final month, Gigafactory Berlin achieved that aim with 5,000 Mannequin Y autos produced in per week.

On the time, Gigafactory Texas was solely recognized to be producing 3,000 Mannequin Y autos per week and Tesla hadn’t up to date the manufacturing fee since December.

Right this moment, Tesla introduced that Gigafactory Texas has achieved a manufacturing fee of 4,000 models in per week:

Due to this fact, the Austin-based Tesla manufacturing unit is falling a bit behind its colleagues in Germany.

Nevertheless, Gigafactory Texas is going through totally different challenges then Gigafactory Berlin.

The first distinction being that a number of the autos produced at Gigafactory Texas are geared up with Tesla’s 4680 battery cells, which allow the brand new « structural battery pack » chassis design.

As we lately reported, Tesla is understood to have had points ramping up manufacturing of the 4680 cells. It’s believed to be impacting manufacturing on the manufacturing unit though Tesla has tailored by producing some Mannequin Y autos with 2170 battery cells because it does as different factories.

The brand new manufacturing fee is bringing Tesla nearer to its aim to have a capability for two million autos yearly this 12 months.