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The Tesla-Panasonic Gigafactory east of Sparks will make more than batteries.
In his State of the State address Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval said the factory will produce electric motors and gear boxes for Tesla's Model 3 vehicles.
Sandoval said the addition will mean another $350 million investment by Tesla and 550 new skilled jobs, in addition to the approximately 1,000 full-time workers already at the factory.
"Tonight I am pleased to announce that Tesla will expand its investment in Nevada by producing the electric motors and gearboxes for the Model 3 at the Gigafactory," Sandoval said.
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It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.
(Score: 4, Informative) by richtopia on Thursday January 19 2017, @01:41AM
Manufacturing other components have always been apart of the Gigafactory plan. Gigafactory 2 is slated for somewhere in Europe, with the vision that complete vehicles come out of the doors. Panasonic actually rents space from Tesla in the current Gigafactory for manufacturing cells, while Tesla does Powerwall and Powerpack production currently on-site.
Freemont is expensive, so I would expect that Tesla will move as much manufacturing over to the Gigafactory as feasible in the future.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19 2017, @01:53AM
Gigafactory 1 in Nevada, Gigafactory 2 somewhere in Europe.
That faggot Musky is really trying to build the Megacities of the Judge Dredd dystopia, isn't he?
Fuck the billionaires. Fuck every billionaire to death.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19 2017, @01:59AM
Fuck Musk!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19 2017, @02:19AM
Fuck Musk!
(Score: 1) by BeaverCleaver on Thursday January 19 2017, @02:59AM
Yes, jobs for "drivetrain engineers" at the gigafactory were posted back in October. Some good info in this article: https://electrek.co/2016/10/15/tesla-drive-unit-production-lines-gigafactory-model-3/ [electrek.co]
No idea why the governor is shouting about it now. But of course, he is a politician.