Tesla Giga Texas Battery Factory Will Enable 70% Lower CapEx per GWh than Industry Norm (2024)

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Megafactory is one of the largest utility-scale battery factories in North America, capable of producing 10,000 Megapack units every year, equal to 40 GWh of clean energy storage.

Is Giga Texas the biggest factory in the world? No, but it is the second largest factory in the United States, and the second largest building in the world by volume.

Fremont, California — the first Tesla gigafactory — has manufacturing capacity for 550,000 Model S and Model X vehicles annually and 100,000 Model S and X vehicles. Tesla's Nevada factory is where it will eventually produce the Tesla 18-wheeler Semi, thanks to a $3.6. billion investment it announced in 2023.

A battery factory of that size is estimated to consume 100 megawatts (MW) of power at peak capacity or 2,400MWh per day, according to Navigant Research.

Gigawatt hours is a measure of total energy produced over time. A typical plant may be around 1 GW Output power. If it runs full time for a year (8760 Hours less some down time for refueling) then it will have made nearly 8000 GW-hours each year. Over a 50 year life it might produce 400,000 GW hours.

A Powerwall costs $11,500 with a solar installation through Tesla. If you want to install a Powerwall onto your existing solar system or are using another solar provider, the cost of a Powerwall without installation is $9,200 (though you'll still need a Tesla Certified professional to install it).

Elon Musk: “Batteries are critical to a sustainable energy future. “We did calculations… what would it take to transition the whole world to sustainable energy, what kind of [battery cell] throughput would you actually need… You would need 100 gigafactories…

The Boeing Everett factory in Washington, USA is the largest production factory in the world.

“If you put the building on its side, it's taller than the Burj Khalifa – that's to scale.” Yet, while Burj Khalifa took six years to build, construction teams completed the build of Giga Texas in its entirety in less than two years. Tesla's 2.4 million square foot Giga Berlin was also built in less than two years.

It is the country's second biggest factory by size as well as the second-largest building by volume in the world after the Boeing Everett Factory.

How many cars can Giga Texas produce? ›

Tesla Giga Texas (Gigafactory 5) in the U.S. - over 375,000/year.

Tesla Giga Texas (Gigafactory 5) in the U.S. - over 375,000/year. Tesla Giga Texas in Austin started production of the Tesla Model Y in April 2022. According to the company, in May 2023, the plant achieved a production rate of 5,000 Model Y (all versions) per week.

On the other hand, the Tesla Gigafactory format is optimized for large-scale production, which can be a disadvantage if demand for batteries decreases or if the market shifts towards smaller-scale production.

Why is the Tesla Gigafactory so expensive? It will cost about $5 billion. This is because it needs to set up a ton of battery building infrastructure to handle pretty much the entire world supply of lithium ion batteries.

Today there are 5 Tesla Gigafactories on 3 continents. The original factory is in Fremont, California, constructed before Musk coined the term Gigafactory. There are Tesla Gigafactories in Nevada, New York, Shanghai, Texas, and Berlin, plus one under construction in Mexico.

In 2023, the company deployed solar energy systems capable of generating 223 megawatts (MW), a decrease of 36% over 2022, and deployed 14.7 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of battery energy storage products, an increase of 125% over 2022.

Tesla, the world's largest all-electric car manufacturer, reports a stable installed annual vehicle capacity of 2.35 million units, according to its Q1 financial report.

Tesla's Scope 1 total carbon emissions reached 211,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (mtCO₂e) in 2023. The amount was 202,000 mtCO₂e in 2022. One of the highest increases occurred in manufacturing, from 148,000 to 151,000 metric tons from 2022 to 2023.