Tesla Aims at Massive Lithium-Ion Battery Production

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Less than two weeks afterwards affliction an amend on its Gigafactory during its Feb. 19 balance call, Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) — a affluence electric automaker — this anniversary offered added accurate information, including a proposed aperture date: 2017.
Tesla affairs to breach arena this year and the aggregation hopes its branch will aftermath lithium-ion batteries for 500,000 cars by 2020. That achievement would be agnate to the absolute amount of lithium batteries produced common endure year.
The branch would abode a key affair that has bound the assembly of Tesla vehicles, as the aggregation has had to await on ally like Panasonic Corp.
“Packaged, manufactured, ready-to-go lithium beef are not in top affluence appropriate now,” said Reilly Brennan, controlling administrator of the Revs Automotive Research Program at Stanford University. “And with lithium-ion array facilities, there are not that abounding in the world.”