April 29, 2021
Tesla’s Giga Berlin production facility is going to have a 4680 battery cell manufacturing plant on site. While some media outlets claim a delay in the Giga Berlin timeline should be expected due to the battery facility being added onto Tesla’s application, there isn’t any evidence to indicate that Tesla’s electric vehicles will be produced any later than the company expects.
The Tesla Giga Berlin production plant project has been one of the most anticipated vehicle manufacturing facilities in recent memory. But what started as Tesla’s way to introduce its products on a wider scale to the European market has become a long and drawn-out game of chess between the California automaker and German regulators. The most recent move in the plans occurred several days ago when Tesla finally decided to add its planned 4680 battery cell manufacturing plant to its application, bringing on the idea that the car company would be able to produce and install its own in-hou
Published: 28 Apr 2021, 14:55
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Tesla launched the 3MWh Megapack in 2019. Image: Tesla.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that the company is already achieving “good margins” on the residential Powerwall product, but that “some additional work is needed” for its utility-scale Megapack to do so.
In reporting its first quarter financial results for 2021, the company noted that its energy storage installations stood at 445MWh for the three month period, which was a 70% increase year-on-year versus Q1 2020 (260MWh) but a similar drop again of about 70% from 1.5GWh installed in Q4 2020.
In a presentation prepared for shareholders, Tesla said the year-on-year increase was driven mainly by “the popularity of Powerwall,” with demand far exceeding production rate. Blackout events such as that experienced in Texas for several days in February are driving customers towards buying home energy storage solutions, the company said.
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Tesla A Year Or More Away From Volume Production Of 4680 Cells
Apr 27, 2021 at 8:18am ET ++ 12 months if not more than 18 months away, according to Tesla s Elon Musk.
Tesla was silent about the progress on its next-generation 4680 cylindrical battery cells, announced at Battery Day in September 2020, in the Q1 2021 report and there is a reason for that.
It appears that bringing those cells into the market in volume is very challenging and might happen later than expected.
Tesla has a small pilot plant for the 4680 cells that is envisioned to produce 10 GWh per year (which is actually a lot), but Tesla s Elon Musk explained during the first-quarter earnings call (via