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Yoni Heisler
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After months of endless construction, Tesla's gargantuan Gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada welcomed guests and select members of the press for a celebratory grand opening event last week. To be clear, it will still take a few more years before construction on the factory is 100% complete, but Tesla was comfortable enough with the progress it has already made to give the world a bit of a glimpse inside the massive structure. While the opening of a factory may seem uneventful if not downright boring in a general sense, Tesla's Gigafactory is anything but ordinary. Aside from being a physically impressive structure, the Gigafactory's existence in and of itself is plays a crucial role in Tesla's quest to manufacture more than 500,000 cars per year by 2020. Now in order to get make that dream a reality, Tesla needs a whole lot of batteries; and because no company on earth can handle the level of battery production Tesla needed, the company up and decided to build its own battery factory, a colossal structure appropriately called the Gigafactory. (more…)
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