American automaker Tesla announced It will open a new factory in the eastern metropolis of China. Shanghai To produce their “megapack”, energy storage batteries used to stabilize power grids and prevent power outages.
Specifically, the new Tesla factory in Shanghai, a production capacity of approximately 10,000 pieces of the product in question every yearAs the company announced this morning on its official Twitter account, a social network now owned by co-founder and CEO Elon Musk.
Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, Work on the so-called “megafactory” will begin in the third quarter of this yearWith the goal of starting production and worldwide sales in the second quarter of 2024.
tesla Already owns one of these “megafactories” in Lathrop (California, United States), where it produces about 10,000 batteries each year, equivalent to about 40 gigawatt hours (GWh) of storage.
According to the company’s website, each “Megapack” can store More than 3 megawatt hours (MWh) of energy“enough to supply an average of 3,600 households one hour”.
Tesla opened its first “gigafactory” outside the United States in Shanghai in 2019, according to the official Global Times. .
Since 2019, the US firm has increased its investment in the Lingang free trade zone, Shanghai’s operating zone, expanded the production of its “gigafactory” and building additional facilities, such as a manufacturing facility for “superchargers” for electric vehiclessays Xinhua.
A local official quoted by the Chinese news agency said that with the opening of the new Tesla factory, the value of the industrial center in that area is expected to exceed 100,000 million yuan ($14,543 million, €13,341 million). .