{"id":34916,"date":"2022-10-31T09:04:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T13:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=34916"},"modified":"2022-10-31T09:04:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T13:04:03","slug":"tesla-giga-texas-built-20000-modely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=34916","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Giga Texas Built Its 20,000th Model Y"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tesla celebrates another milestone at its Giga Texas factory, which recently produced its 20,000th electric car.<\/p>\n

On October 30, the company shared a new photo with a red Model Y<\/a> and a “20k” sign, surrounded by employees. The description says:<\/p>\n

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“20k Model Y built at Giga Texas to date!”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s another bit of positive news related to the production ramp-up in Texas. Previously,\u00a0the company celebrated its 10,000th car on September 17<\/a><\/p>\n

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This new info allows us to calculate that during the past 43 days (between September 17 and October 30), Tesla produced 10,000 Tesla Model Y.<\/p>\n

That’s about 232 per day or over 1,600 per week, compared to over 1,000 per week reported on August 20<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Considering that the installed manufacturing capacity is higher than 250,000 units annually<\/a>, the target to fully utilize the capacity is roughly 5,000 per week.<\/p>\n

Troy Teslike<\/em>\u00a0reports also that it took Tesla 108 days to produce the first 10,000 Model Y in Texas and only 43 to produce the next 10,000. For reference, the Giga Shanghai plant produced 20,000 units “in exactly 100 days”<\/em>, while Giga Berlin achieved that\u00a0“in 187 days”<\/em> (although we guess that it’s an estimated number, which is based on the\u00a0production level of 1,000 per week since June 18<\/a> and 2,000 per week since October 1<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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We must admit that the Tesla Giga Texas progress is impressive, especially because the factory is producing an all-new Tesla Model Y version with the 4680-type cylindrical battery cells and a structural battery pack.<\/p>\n

Limited supply of this type of battery was considered a major bottleneck for the plant and probably caused the decision to produce also the “standard” version with 2170-type cylindrical battery cells and a non-structural battery pack (like in other factories). This happened in late June<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Currently, we don’t know what the proportion is between the 4680 and 2170 Tesla Model Y in Texas.<\/p>\n

The new 4680-type Model Y has not yet appeared on Tesla’s design studio as a separate version (it has a bit different range than the Long Range AWD version from Fremont), but was initially offered to employees or appeared in Tesla’s existing inventory.<\/p>\n

Those two versions are produced side-by-side:<\/p>\n