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Nice article and a picture showing progress at the GF site! http://news.yahoo.com/tesla-factory-near-reno-bet-old-nevada-meet-051448841--finance.html
These pictures are NOT the gigafactory. They are "A facility is being built for Battery Systems." This is made clear in this article, right below the picture of construction.
Tesla's ripple effect could touch everyone in Reno
Yes, it is for http://www.batterysystems.net -A significantly smaller plant.Is there another battery factory being built in that area?
But there is something that I just don't get, maybe someone here can explain it to me...
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Given all the above, I would expect this thread to be filled up with images of the giga-factory under construction. Why is that not the case? There is one picture from the area, and we don't even know whether it is the giga-factory or not .
RT
This is the second time I've seen the decision to put the factory in Nevada described as "tesla relocating" to Nevada. Anyone have some insight here?
Tesla has made an application for the Nevada incentives and they released some details:
The application confirmed that the plant will employ 6,500 full-time employees but raised its average wage estimate to $26.16 per hour. Tesla expects to employ 300 workers during the first year of the project, growing that to 2,000 workers by the third year and 4,000 workers by the fifth year. Tesla plans to have 6,500 employees by its eighth year. Initial projections had the gigafactory being fully operational by 2017.
Staffing for the battery plant will include:
• 4,550 production associates paid $22.79 per hour
• 200 material handlers paid $22.79 per hour
• 460 equipment technicians paid $27.88 per hour
• 360 quality technicians paid $27.88 per hour
• 930 engineers and senior staff paid $41.83 per hour.
Wages paid by Tesla for the gigafactory will total $353.6 million per year at full employment The figure does not include construction employment.
Tesla also provided a more detailed breakdown of the $5 billion in capital investments it will make on the facility through 2028. The cost for the building and site infrastructure will be $1.1 billion. Machinery and equipment will account for the remaining $3.9 billion, including materials processing and product assembly.
Source:
Tesla details employment, investment plans for Gigafactory
This is very helpful information. The bulk of employees will be involved with daily production activities, so they will be hired as capacity comes on line.
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But basically it looks like production will ramp up roughly linearly over about 6 years from 2016 to 2022.
growing that to 2,000 workers by the third year
The figure does not include construction employment.
Is there a tax incentive if teslas headquarters address is Nevada?Because relocation sounds like you are stealing business from other states. Tesla is not relocating. Most of the employees on site will probably not even be Tesla employees but Panasonic employees.
Am I reading this right if I based on this numbers conclude that the factory will "go online" and start to produce battery cells in the fall of 2016?
Guessing 1. year is about Sept. 2014 - Aug. 2015 and 3. year is about Sept. 2016 - Sept. 2017.
This gives hope that the Model 3 will be on the streets in early 2017 ... but also tells me that the ramp up of Model 3 production will be slower then I hoped for... Guessing ~100k in 2017?
Is there a tax incentive if teslas headquarters address is Nevada?
I don't know what you were hoping for, but 100k Model 3 in 2017 would be quite good! That would put their total production at something like 250k in 2017! So 60-70k in 2015, 125k in 2016 (just model S/X), and then 150k Model S/X and 100k Model 3 in 2017! This would be better than I was reasonably estimating if true