Tesla and Panasonic will stop JV in Gigafactory 2 (Source: Nikkei)

[hiroshiy]

テスラとパナソニック、太陽電池の共同生産解消へ
Summary:
- GF2 was using Chinese PV cells instead of Panasonic cell, because it didn't match Tesla Solar Roof requirements of esthetics and efficiency.
- The factory capacity is too big to produce Panasonic PV cells, thus they intend to stop producing Panasonic PV cells in GF2 (no mention of Tesla Solar Roof production)
- Panasonic will source PV cells from Chinese GS Solar for existing Panasonic PV cell clients

 

[MABMAB]

Giga New York, not Giga 2

 

[BozieBeMe2]

Giga New York, not Giga 2

Yes, please use the correct photo. While I believe this will come about soon enough, don't cause me to have a financial heart attack just yet!

 

[Tiger]

Too clickbaity and misleading, to post well known car battery factory photos, while talking about mostly unknown solar factory.

 

[GSP]

This article says “batteries” but this is incorrect and misleading. Tesla and Panasonic had a JV to produce photovoltaic solar cells at Giga 2 in New York, NOT battery cells.

GSP

 

[hiroshiy]

I think Google translate did a poor job of translating 太陽電池=PV cells to something related to battery. In fact 電池 means battery.

Anyway I didn't use any battery word in my summary and Nikkei is always misleading and wrong