Tesla Gigafactory

[JRP3]

I thought at one point Elon said "Emerald cut diamond".

 

[TEG]

Electrician Scronce carries conduits at the construction site of a battery systems plant at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center in McCarran, Nevada | View photo - Yahoo News Canada

Electrician Scronce carries conduits at the construction site of a battery systems plant at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center in McCarran, Nevada | View photo - Yahoo News Canada

 

[JRP3]

Is this our first look at the actual GF?

 

[TEG]

Google search on "Tesla Battery Gigafactory., Nevada" show as different location a lot closer to Sparks:
https://plus.google.com/117995864379905824469/about?hl=en&gl=us

(Insert joke about battery and sparks.)

( A google plus comment says: "This is close, but gigafactory is officially east a few miles from here, off USA Parkway. There's another Google Earth marker." )

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Another Google pin:
https://plus.google.com/108142396283072569084/about?hl=en&gl=us

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And yet another map:
USA Parkway Extension will cut Tesla commute | Nevada State Personnel Watch

 

[Lump]

Portofino Drive is correct

 

[TEG]

Portofino Drive is correct
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So I guess just to the right of these existing big buildings:

 

[TEG]

Tesla's ripple effect could touch everyone in Reno

 

[LakeForest]

These shots are of a different battery manufacturing site in Reno(referenced in the above article). Do we have any locals in Reno that may be able to provide weekly/biweekly shots of the construction progress? I am surprised we haven't heard more from Bob Tregilus, the guy that broke the story about the potential gigafactory site.

 

[CliffG]

Not sure if this is referenced elsewhere, or if there's even much new, but over on ZDNet:
Panasonic to pour billions of yen in Tesla's gigafactory as initial investment

 

[Lump]

An employment website is listing 14 job openings for the Tesla gigafactory east of Reno-Sparks.
14 jobs advertised for Tesla's Reno-area battery plant

 

[TEG]

Some related stuff:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152809292785982.1073741828.13684775981&type=3

Eventually to become this:

https://ekayconsultants.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/the-impact-of-tesla-on-reno-sparks.pdf

 

[swaltner]

"Banana" ... OK, that got a chuckle out of me!

 

[chickensevil]

I contest that banana is not drawn properly to scale! It should be a bit smaller

 

[eepic]

I contest that banana is not drawn properly to scale! It should be a bit smaller

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HotLemonade comments on Exactly how HUGE will the Tesla Gigafactory be? [Fixed - OC]

 

[chickensevil]

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HotLemonade comments on Exactly how HUGE will the Tesla Gigafactory be? [Fixed - OC]

Apparently someone made a "real" to scale image to represent a banana

http://i.imgur.com/bf0GAkw.png (didn't want to copy the image here because it is rather large and you need to "zoom" to see the banana )

 

[palmer_md]

So how many bananas will fit inside the building? Are the assembly line stations run by monkeys?

 

[zag2me]

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152809292785982.1073741828.13684775981&type=3
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Finally a real picture of the site!

Lets hope there are more updates posted soon.

 

[Lump]

From the Q3 shareholder letter.

 

[chickensevil]

Finally a real picture of the site!

Lets hope there are more updates posted soon.

It was in the investor thread, but here you go, this photo was provided in the Q3 shareholders letter.

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From the Q3 shareholder letter.

Beat me to it

 

[Leptoquark]

I got interested in the scale drawing (which EV Obsession notes is an estimate)

For folks in Washington DC, it and its parking apron would stretch from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument, and be just about the width of the Mall from Independence to Constitution.