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In June 2009 Tesla was approved to receive US$465 million in interest-bearing loans from the United States Department of Energy.The funding, part of the US$8 billion Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program, supported engineering and production of the Model S sedan, as well as the development of commercial powertrain technology. [33]
Robotic manufacturing of the Model S at the Tesla Factory in Fremont, California. Tesla, Inc. operates plants worldwide for the manufacture of their products, including electric vehicles, [1] lithium-ion batteries, solar shingles, chargers, automobile parts, manufacturing equipment and tools for its own factories, as well as a lithium ore refinery.
Tesla, Inc. (/ ˈ t ɛ s l ə / ⓘ TESS-lə or / ˈ t ɛ z l ə / TEZ-lə [a]) is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, it designs, manufactures and sells battery electric vehicles (BEVs), stationary battery energy storage devices from home to grid-scale, solar panels and solar shingles, and related products and services.
The plant is the only production site for the Model S and Model X and also produces the Model 3, and Model Y. In 2023, the Fremont Factory produced nearly 560,000 vehicles and employed over 20,000 people. Tesla says the factory has the capacity to produce up to 100,000 Model S and X vehicles and 550,000 Model 3 and Y vehicles annually. [2]
Tesla lowered the production target to 4,350 a week in July and August, and plans to reduce it further. [63] Currently, the carmaker is planning to expand Gigafactory Berlin, which employs nearly 12,000 people, to increase production from an annual 250,000 vehicles to 1 million vehicles per year in the long term, but is putting the plans on ...
In October 2016 Tesla said its production timeline was on schedule. [93] Again in February 2017, Tesla said that vehicle development, supply chain and manufacturing are on track to support volume deliveries of the Model 3 in the second half of 2017.
The 1st generation Tesla Roadster is a battery electric sports car, that is based on the Lotus Elise chassis, and was produced by Tesla Motors (now Tesla, Inc.) from 2008 to 2012. The Roadster was the first highway legal, serial production , all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells, and the first production all-electric car to travel ...
[3] [6] [7] [8] It also serves as the site of Tesla's corporate headquarters. [9] Tesla employs over 20,000 people at the factory and expects to eventually have a staff of 60,000 as production ramps up. [1] It is the country's second biggest factory by size as well as the second-largest building by volume in the world after the Boeing Everett ...