Gigafactory 1 | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Wed, 04 Jan 2017 17:06:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Gigafactory 1 | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 is starting to get pretty damn big https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/teslas-gigafactory-1-is-starting-to-get-pretty-damn-big/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/teslas-gigafactory-1-is-starting-to-get-pretty-damn-big/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2016 15:49:01 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=315491 When Tesla's Gigafactory 1 lithium-ion production facility is complete it will be the largest building by floor space in the world. It's not quite there yet and isn't expected to be finished until sometime in 2018, but it's coming on apace. Even with just 14 per cent of it completed, it's starting to look rather …

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When Tesla's Gigafactory 1 lithium-ion production facility is complete it will be the largest building by floor space in the world. It's not quite there yet and isn't expected to be finished until sometime in 2018, but it's coming on apace. Even with just 14 per cent of it completed, it's starting to look rather impressive.

The Gigafactory 1, named as such because it will likely be the first of many, was initially slated to be the biggest lithium-ion battery production facility in the world. While that is still the case – it should produce the equivalent of the entire 2013 global supply of li-ion when finished – it will now produce drive units and motors for Tesla vehicles too.

Located at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, in Nevada, U.S., the facility really is extraordinarily large. What's already built makes the cars parked next to it look miniscule in comparison and there is still plenty more to build.

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The recent snapshot of its development comes from Youtuber Matthew Roberts, who has been using drones to document the construction of large scale projects like Apple's Campus 2 and the Gigafactory. The enormous facility stands in stark contrast to the barren desert around it, with its sharp lines and red accenting looking very contemporary in a very remote-looking part of the world.

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KitGuru Says: The Gigafactory is a pretty amazing construction project. It will be interesting to see what effect its coming online has on the many industries that rely on the li-ion technology, which it will be able to produce on an unprecedented scale. 

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Tesla’s pilot Gigafactory battery production plant gets 4k flyover https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/jon-martindale/teslas-pilot-gigafactory-battery-production-plant-gets-4k-flyover/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/jon-martindale/teslas-pilot-gigafactory-battery-production-plant-gets-4k-flyover/#respond Thu, 21 May 2015 11:17:20 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=250463 Want to take a look at how Tesla's monstrous battery production plant, termed the Gigafactory is coming along? Well now you can, as there's a new 4K resolution, drone video flyover of the facility in its current state, which is at 1/4 the size of the final thing. Termed the “pilot plant,” by company founder …

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Want to take a look at how Tesla's monstrous battery production plant, termed the Gigafactory is coming along? Well now you can, as there's a new 4K resolution, drone video flyover of the facility in its current state, which is at 1/4 the size of the final thing. Termed the “pilot plant,” by company founder Elon Musk, it's located in the Nevada desert and will eventually provide as many as 6,500 jobs and supply 500,000 Tesla cars with batteries per year.

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In the fly by we can see that production is continuing apace, though there is still a lot more work to do. The scale of the facility is enormous however, with giant lorries and construction equipment nearby dwarfed by its expanse.

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Gigafactory 1 will come online in 2017 and by then is thought likely to have cost as much as $5 (£3.19) billion to build, though it is expected to make as much as $20 billion for the local area over the course of the next two decades. It will produce lithium-ion batteries more efficiently than Tesla's current production facilities can, bringing the price of the batteries used in its cars and powercells down by as much as 30 per cent.

Better yet, the facility will be entirely powered by solar cells, thereby having much less environmental impact than a traditional manufacturing plant. Those will be provided by another Musk investment venture, SolarCity. That company will also benefit from a secondary manufacturing facility Musk is pushing to build in New York State, which will produce solar cells for commercial and consumer usage.

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KitGuru Says: Quite a construction project. It will be interesting to see what such a development in the – relatively – middle of nowhere does to the local area. 

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