wherearchitectureisfun:Tesla electric car manufacturer is building the largest building on earth (ba
wherearchitectureisfun:Tesla electric car manufacturer is building the largest building on earth (based on footprint): the Gigafactory 1Tesla alone will require today’s entire worldwide production of lithium ion batteries. The Tesla Gigafactory was born of necessity and will supply enough batteries to support our projected vehicle demand.Tesla broke ground on the Gigafactory in June 2014 outside Sparks, Nevada, and we expect to begin cell production in 2017. By 2020, the Gigafactory will reach full capacity and produce more lithium ion batteries annually than were produced worldwide in 2013.The Gigafactory will produce batteries for significantly less cost using economies of scale, innovative manufacturing, reduction of waste, and the simple optimization of locating most manufacturing process under one roof. We expect to drive down the per kilowatt hour (kWh) cost of our battery pack by more than 30 percent. The Gigafactory will also be powered by renewable energy sources, with the goal of achieving net zero energy.The name Gigafactory comes from the factory’s planned annual battery production capacity of 35 gigawatt-hours (GWh). “Giga” is a unit of measurement that represents “billions”. One GWh is the equivalent of generating (or consuming) one billion watts for one hour—one million times that of one kWh.According to the author of the diagram, the final building footprint could be something close to 3535 ft (1077 m) x 1414 ft (431 m).Elon Musk plans to expand the Gigafactory 1 from 10 million square feet [1 million square meters or 100ha] by 50 to 100 percent.“Diagram sourceLast picture by Bob Tregilus and used with permission/CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 -- source link
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