In Texas, at the official opening of Tesla’s massive Austin factory, CEO Elon Musk had a clear message Thursday night: It’s going to be big.
“This year is all about scaling, and next year there’s going to be a huge wave of new products,” summarized Musk, who hit point after brag at Giga Texas.
For next year, Musk promises Cybertruck for production in 2023—The door handles are omitted — as are the Roadster and Semi. Furthermore, he teased a dedicated about the “quite futuristic” look robotaxiand Tesla RobotsOptimus, which he claims “destroys the meaning of an economy.”
Giga Texas Opening – April 2022
According to Musk, Giga Texas is the largest factory building in the world and “the most advanced automobile factory the Earth has ever seen” – one of the many connections Musk loves to forge between Tesla and SpaceX. , from one Tesla Roadster stuntman “Starman” arrive rocket technology for the second generation Roadster.
“You know a very advanced factory if it feels like an alien dreadnought landing,” he said, likening the entire factory to an integrated circuit, a chip.
The Texas plant will create cells from the raw material, form a structural package, combine it with pre- and post-molded bodies, and create the finished product.
“So it’s raw materials on one side, cars on the other side,” Musk said, adding that the strategy makes vehicles lighter and improves crash performance.
Giga Texas Opening – April 2022
Musk said that in the future, Giga Texas will be the highest-volume car factory in the US and the largest cell factory in the world. And with a goal of hitting 500,000 annual units of the Model Y before ramping up the Cybertruck at the factory, he announced that the Model Y series would be the highest capacity of a product from a single factory, anywhere in the world.
“California is great and we are continuing to expand in California,” summarized Musk, who in 2020 announced the move. Headquarters far from the statecreated 10% of its global sales in recent months. “But we’ve run out of space, and so we need a place where we can really grow, and there’s no place like Texas.”
Musk said that Tesla has delivered more than a million vehicles worldwide in the past 12 months. That accounts for more than 1% of total vehicle production in the world.
Opening Giga Texas – Elon Musk
“We want to get to 20%, as much as we can, to move the needle,” he said, returning to points we may not have heard Musk bring up often enough in social media cycles. festival. “This is why scale matters. To make a real difference, a really big difference to sustainability, we have to make a lot of cars; we had to do a lot of static packages to move the world to sustainable technology as quickly as possible. ”
