Musk's great vision Tesla super factory stunned everyone!

Release time:

2016-09-06

The plan is to build such Gigafactory in any place in the world, whether it is Europe, China or India, and factories that can make batteries and cars at the same time.

Last Saturday, Tesla's $5 billion super battery factory Gigafactory opened in Nevada-the factory broke ground in June 2014 and is only 14% built. Tesla put the already built part into use first, and the later project is still under construction in stages.

Musk's Great Vision

This super-large factory is the key to Tesla's plan to increase its annual output to 500000 vehicles by 2018. Its goal is to produce more lithium batteries than the global output in 2013 by 2018.

As more and more automakers begin to focus on the development of electric vehicles, the global demand for lithium-ion batteries will greatly increase. Therefore, self-sufficient battery production is the best choice for Tesla.

This will be a machine for building machines.

-- Elon Musk

The building structure that has been built so far covers a total area of 800000 square feet (about 74000 square meters), and the usable space is about 1.9 million square feet (about 177000 square meters). Such an impressive and vast, The factory still under construction is full of industrial robots and Tesla cars.

This factory will realize Musk's great vision to be a zero energy factory. Reliance on fossil fuels is completely eliminated, and there is no natural gas pipeline network or diesel generator to provide electricity to reduce carbon emissions.

Tesla pointed out that the factory is currently in the process of phased construction and will put the completed part into use to maximize the speed of the process.

And the factory has begun the production of battery modules and battery packs to match the production of Model 3, such as household Powerwall and commercial Powerpacks.

Tesla officials said that the Powerwall's low power consumption can prevent sudden downtime, while the Powerpacks is equivalent to 16 Powerwall of electricity, and can maintain the normal power usage of an ordinary American family for 3 days.

Automation boosts productivity

In addition to plans to hire 10000 workers when the factory is fully operational, Tesla also plans to use a large number of robots in the factory to increase production capacity.

But in the Gigafactory, you will find many buildings with strange features, such as many temporary facades.

That's because, on the one hand, Tesla wants to get production up and running as quickly as possible. On the other hand, as much capacity as possible is needed.

On the assembly line in the factory, robots take on a large part of the role, and engineers work not far from the assembly line. The factory reads "Reno Supercharger", a nickname for Tesla's fast charging stations for electric vehicles.

There are a large number of car-guided robots in the factory, which use electromagnets or navigators to carry out logistics transmission on the production line.

Musk also said that Tesla's next move is to be able to build such Gigafactory in any place in the world, whether it is Europe, China or India, which can produce batteries and make cars at the same time.

Night research: intelligent manufacturing 2025 trend is unstoppable?

Robot Industry Development Plan (2016-2020)