# Tesla Gigafactory Nevada Expansion Announcement

**URL:** <https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/tesla-gigafactory-nevada-expansion-announcement/2657>\
**Category:** The Happening World\
**Tags:** electric-vehicles, tesla, elon-musk, rechargeable-batteries, tesla-semi\
**Created:** [26 January 2023 13:22 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/tesla-gigafactory-nevada-expansion-announcement/2657 "2023-01-26T13:22:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/johnwalker/32/17415_2.png) [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
**Post date:** [26 January 2023 13:22 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/tesla-gigafactory-nevada-expansion-announcement/2657/1 "2023-01-26T13:22:28Z")

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[![](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/2X/7/741ef5201a96d1481b36b21143b5498246ee35d8.jpeg "Giga Nevada Battery and Semi Manufacturing Update") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLdIPmE4dCs)

On 2023-01-24 Tesla announced, “[Continuing Our Investment in Nevada](https://www.tesla.com/blog/continuing-our-investment-nevada)”:

> To date, the team at [Gigafactory Nevada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigafactory_Nevada) has successfully produced:
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> - 7.3 billion battery cells (37 GWh+ annually)
> - 1.5 million battery packs
> - 3.6 million drive units
> - 1 million energy modules (14 GWh+ total)
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> To complete this work, we directly hired more than 11,000 team members.
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> We will be investing over $3.6 billion more to continue growing Gigafactory Nevada, adding 3,000 new team members and two new factories: a 100 GWh 4680 [cell factory](https://www.tesla.com/cell-jobs) (with capacity to produce enough batteries for 1.5 million light duty vehicles annually), as well as our first high-volume Semi factory. [Semi](https://www.tesla.com/semi) is our fully electric combination truck, with 500 miles of range and energy consumption of less than 2 KWh per mile.

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**Author:** ![CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/ctlaw/32/42_2.png) [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\
**Post date:** [26 January 2023 13:28 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/tesla-gigafactory-nevada-expansion-announcement/2657/2 "2023-01-26T13:28:03Z")

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More of a construction restart. Construction stopped prematurely a while back:

 ![](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/2X/0/00a6608c0d51ff9e6a65cc76fd76096aaf4c29ef.jpeg)  
My assumption is that they realized the local infrastructure would not support the full plan.

> **[Here's what Tesla Gigafactory Nevada is supposed to look like](https://electrek.co/2020/11/03/tesla-gigafactory-nevada-supposed-to-look-like/)**
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> Tesla Gigafactory Nevada is infamously only “30% complete” and it has been that way for the past 3 years. Here’s...

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**Author:** ![johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/johnwalker/32/17415_2.png) [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
**Post date:** [26 January 2023 13:34 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/tesla-gigafactory-nevada-expansion-announcement/2657/3 "2023-01-26T13:34:14Z")

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> [@CTLaw](#):
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> More of a construction restart. Construction stopped prematurely a while back:

The announcement event included the governor of Nevada who spent some time talking about upgrading Interstate 80 and other infrastructure in the area, to much applause from the attendees.