Three events last week at Gigafactory1. As discussed above, Tesla and Solar City lobbied Nevada lawmakers on Wednesday evening. Earlier that day Leonard DeCaprio did some filming as part of a documentary on renewable energy. He stayed around for the lobbying event. The events were reported by Fortune (
Why Nevada Legislators (Plus Leo DiCaprio) Visited Tesla's Gigafactory), EcoWatch (
Musk, DiCaprio and Rive Talk the Future of Solar at Tesla Gigafactory) and the Las Vegas Review-Journal(
Tesla officials show off progress at Gigafactory in Northern Nevada).
On Friday, Tesla held an event for local media as reported by the Reno Gazette(
Here's our first look inside Tesla's Gigafactory) and ThisisReno (
VIDEO: Inside the Tesla Gigafactory). The Model S test drive in the video on the ThisisReno site is fun to view. The RenoGazette article makes note that the original plan was to build the entire Gigafactory1 by 2017 and then begin production of cells and packs. That plan was abandoned (explains taking down some of the steel framework) for the current plan of installing production in each phase before starting the next phase.
'About 14 percent of the total expected factory space is constructed. The full project is expected to be completed in 2020, a Tesla spokesman said. That's an adjustment from the original construction schedule that pegged a completion date in October 2017.
"Originally, we were going to build the whole building all at once, but that didn't make a lot of sense," a spokesman said. "We needed to begin producing faster."
"We are stepping into it in modular fashion so that as we build we can learn from what we've built," he added.'
