{"id":34607,"date":"2022-10-26T06:08:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T10:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=34607"},"modified":"2022-10-26T06:08:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T10:08:51","slug":"tesla-unveils-megafactory-battery-production-ramps-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=34607","title":{"rendered":"Tesla unveils its Megafactory as battery production ramps up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tesla has unveiled its Megafactory in California for the first time as part of a hiring effort as it ramps up battery production.<\/p>\n

Last year,\u00a0Tesla broke ground on a new \u201cMegafactory\u201d to produce Megapack batteries<\/a>\u00a0in Lathrop, California. The goal is to have a new factory focused only on building the large battery pack for utility-scale energy storage projects.<\/p>\n

CEO Elon Musk revealed that\u00a0Tesla aims for Megafactory to produce an impressive 40 GWh of Megapacks per year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite working on the new manufacturing facility for about a year, we didn\u2019t hear much about Tesla\u2019s effort until last month when the automaker started to ramp up hiring<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now Tesla has unveiled the Megafactory for the first time in a LinkedIn<\/a> video as it promotes a new hiring effort at the factory:<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s impressive that Tesla managed to achieve production at the facility roughly a year after breaking ground.<\/p>\n

Electrek<\/em>\u00a0heard from sources familiar with the matter that Tesla has been making great progress at the Megafactory. Tesla had previously been producing Megapacks exclusively at Gigafactory Nevada, but production is now ramping up fast at Megafactory in California with already the capacity to produce up to 25 Megapacks in a single day, according to sources.<\/p>\n

However, the production capacity is fairly recent, and, therefore, the deployment won\u2019t be felt until Q4 and into 2023, when Tesla can install the battery packs and the energy storage projects can be commissioned.<\/p>\n

Electrek\u2019s Take<\/h2>\n

Last week, Tesla reported a record quarter for energy storage deployment<\/a> with 2.1 GWh deployed in a single quarter.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t even know if Megafactory\u2019s output had any impact on this record, but if it did, it was minimal.<\/p>\n

In Q4 and deeper into 2023 is likely when we are going to start feeling the impact of the new factory\u2019s output as the Megapacks get shipped, installed, and commissioned.<\/p>\n

I think people should expect significant jumps in energy storage deployment at Tesla in the coming quarters.<\/p>\n

Musk believes Tesla\u2019s energy division can eventually rival Tesla\u2019s auto business in scale. We won\u2019t be anywhere near that with the output of the Megafactory, but it\u2019s certainly an important step closer.<\/p>\n

For comparison, there is as much as 50 times the Model Y\u2019s battery energy capacity in a Megapack. So an output of 25 per day is equivalent to the batteries in more than 1,000 electric cars.<\/p>\n

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