Adoption, Scaling & Gigafactories

An industrial engineer's wet dream

[TL;DR Tesla is dominating and will continue to]

Adoption

Scaling

Monopolized communications services showing increasing or stagnant prices

Electricity demand is outstripping growth & rate of innovation

Tesla Gigafactories

Global Battery Demand

Tesla Innovation

Tabless battery design

Dry anode & zero waste-water cathode production. Structural battery integration.

Megacorporate efficiency

Fremont Factory (California)

Old Tesla headquarters

Giga Nevada

Giga New York

Giga Shanghai

Largest Tesla export hub

Adding 2nd production line to 2x production. Adding 450k extra cars annually (Source: https://archive.ph/P3wJl).

Giga Berlin

Producing updated Model Y

Model Y Giga Casting

Rear & front single piece casting. Less pieces simpler to manufacture.

Giga Texas

New Tesla headquarters

Cybertruck Giga Casting

World’s largest die casting machine (so far)

Rumored Future Gigafactories

• United Kingdom

• Indonesia

Further Readings

S Curves