Name: tesla
Uploaded: 2019-02-28T15:58:16.000Z
Duration: 7 min
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- For the last year or so, the story of Tesla

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has been all about the Model 3 and understandably so.

Elon Musk basically staked the entire viability

and there were times where that bet looked pretty risky.

- See which production issues to sort out.

to see the most important thing that Tesla makes,

When it's finished, the first Gigafactory

will be the biggest building in the world by footprint,

It's large enough to house 107 NFL football fields

and currently makes about 3.5 million battery cells per day.

- [Chris] As you can see, never a dull moment here,

- We designed this Factory with first principles in mind,

positioning lines as close to the loading docks as possible,

We'll have over 200,000 solar panels on the roof

It'd be the largest array of solar panels anywhere.

that will all eventually be production space for something,

There's a ton of different options that we have

and we have the products to support that.

- Tesla has clear goals for a complete Gigafactory

but it's still very much under construction.

it wants to finish the factory in the early 2020s,

it's easy to see that there's a lot more work to do.

You see, while Gigafactory 1 is all about the Model 3,

Tesla doesn't actually build that car here.

The building is essentially split into two parts,

part of the Gigafactory is leased to Panasonic,

makes the cells that Tesla uses in its battery packs.

is used to build the drive unit for the Model 3.

That's the battery pack, the electric motor,

and a few other things, like the inverter.

That all gets packaged up and shipped to California

Tesla still leans really heavily on this factory

here in Fremont California to make the Model X, S,

In fact, every Tesla that's on the road today

If Tesla ever wants to reach that ultimate goal

it basically needs to move everything that happens here

And, frankly, there are a lot of elements of that idea

of vertical integration already happening here.

Tesla does everything from cut metal from rolls of aluminum

to stamp out pieces for the cars to making the seats,

basically everything that goes into making a car,

- [Jat] These are the batteries coming from Gigafactory.

They come in on a rack that is designed for automation,

and gets transferred over through the FlexDecks.

who's the head of manufacturing for the Model 3.

- So automation, we're looking for everything.

We obviously want to improve efficiencies across the board.

Any of the areas where you have a lot of complexity

we want to be able to automate those cells

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