{"id":39036,"date":"2022-12-26T12:03:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T17:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=39036"},"modified":"2022-12-26T12:03:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T17:03:51","slug":"tesla-4680-battery-production-868000week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=39036","title":{"rendered":"Tesla 4680-Type Battery Cell Production Nears 1 Million\/Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tesla announced this week that the Kato Road pilot battery facility in Fremont, California achieved a new production milestone.<\/p>\n

According to the company’s tweet, the team managed to produce roughly 868,000 4680-type cylindrical lithium-ion battery cells during the last 7 days.<\/p>\n

Tesla<\/a> added also a reference that such a number is enough for more than 1,000 electric cars. Currently, the only model equipped with the 4680-type battery cells is the Texas-made Tesla Model Y<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“Congrats to the 4680 cell team on achieving 868k cells built in the last 7 days\u2014equal to 1k+ cars!”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Tesla 4680-type battery cells at the Tesla Giga Texas<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Previously, we heard that the facility produced a cumulative number of one million 4680-type cells in February<\/a> (since production started in 2020).<\/p>\n

We don’t know what the current cumulative number is, but with 10 months now down the road, it should be more than 10 million units.<\/p>\n

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If we combine the latest news with the previous info that the Tesla Giga Texas plant has produced 3,000 Model Y cars per week for the very first time<\/a>, it turns out that no more than about one-third is equipped with 4680-type battery cells (Tesla Model Y AWD).<\/p>\n

It means that the remaining 2,000 Model Y\/week were Long Range AWD versions, powered by 2170-type battery cells.<\/p>\n

Many of us wonder what is the annual output of Tesla’s pilot battery facility in California.<\/p>\n

Well, if we combined the number of more than 1,000 Model Y cars and 50+ weeks per year, the production rate might be at 3.5-4 GWh\/year. That’s about one-tenth of the output of the Tesla Gigafacotry 1 in Nevada.<\/p>\n

Tesla initially said that the pilot production line is expected to produce 10 GWh of batteries annually<\/a>. That’s a lot, but still not enough for 5,000 Model Y cars per week (250,000 per year) in Texas, which is the target.<\/p>\n

It means that Tesla will have to start volume production of 4680-type battery cells also at the Giga Texas site to make the full switch to 4680 in Texas and support the Tesla Cybertruck<\/a>‘s launch.<\/p>\n

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Tesla announced this week that the Kato Road pilot battery facility in Fremont, California achieved a new production milestone. According to the company’s tweet, the team managed to produce roughly 868,000 4680-type cylindrical lithium-ion battery cells during the last 7 days. Tesla added also a reference that such a number is enough for more than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}