Tesla says it has produced its 10 millionth 4680 battery cell on the firm’s headquarter manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas.
First introduced throughout Tesla’s Battery Day in 2020, the 4680 is a revolutionary new cell design. With new supplies and manufacturing processes, Tesla says the brand new cells will cut back battery prices per kWh by as much as 56%
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Because the 2020 announcement Tesla has been working exhausting to scale manufacturing.
Throughout Tesla’s Q1 earnings name in April, Tesla’s senior VP of engineering Drew Baglino supplied an replace on the 4680 cell growth.
“On Battery Day, we established a cost-down roadmap by way of 2026 throughout 5 areas of effort. There was the cell design we mentioned; anode and cathode supplies, the structural pack idea, and the cell manufacturing facility itself,” stated Baglino.
“We’ve been making progress throughout all these elements since then. For the cell manufacturing facility, for the Texas 4680 manufacturing facility, we’re half means by way of constructing and commissioning and putting in and working. We’ll be 70% decrease capex per gigawatt hour than typical cell factories when absolutely ramped in keeping with what we described on Battery Day.”
For reference, 10 million 4680 cells is sufficient to make about 12,000 Mannequin Ys so if Tesla desires to make use of its personal batteries within the bulk of its manufacturing it might want to scale to round 10 million per week as Cybertruck and Mannequin Y car manufacturing ramp up at GigaTexas.
In January Tesla introduced that it’s investing $US3.6 billion ($A5 billion) to broaden its Giga Nevada battery manufacturing facility enlargement including 100 GWh per yr of its 4680 battery cells.
Whereas Tesla’s in-house 4680 cells are ramping up, the majority of Tesla batteries are nonetheless produced by exterior suppliers like CATL and Panasonic.
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