“We will invest more than $3.6 billion more to continue developing the Nevada gigafactory,” Tesla said in a statement.
This is an amount slightly higher than the initial investment for the construction of the factory, which amounted to 3.5 billion dollars in 2014, recalls Tesla.
In reality, two new factories will be created, the manufacturer specified: the first will manufacture cells for the batteries, with the "capacity to produce enough batteries for 1.5 million light vehicles per year", and the second will be the "first high-volume Semi manufacturing plant".
Tesla plans to recruit 3,000 people there.
The Nevada plant, Tesla's first "mega-factory", began producing batteries in 2017.
Since announcing its construction in 2014, Tesla said it had invested $6.2 billion in Nevada and directly hired more than 11,000 people.
Tesla now has four "mega-factories", in addition to the one in Nevada: New York, Shanghai, Berlin and, most recently, the one in Texas which covers an area equivalent to a hundred football fields and is operational. since the end of 2021.
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