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The Tesla Model 3 is a battery electric mid-size sedan with a fastback body style built by Tesla, Inc., introduced in 2017. The vehicle is marketed as being more affordable to more people than previous models made by Tesla. The Model 3 was the world's top-selling plug-in electric car for three years, from 2018 to 2020, before the Tesla Model Y ...
[13] [117] Only Panasonic cells are to be used in the US-made Model 3, [132] and Tesla uses 21–70 format for Model 3 and Powerwall/Powerpack. [117] Panasonic owns some of the cell production equipment [130] in an area not accessible to non-Panasonic employees. By December 2018, Panasonic operated 11 cell production lines. [110]
The Model S and X battery packs are assembled in-house at the Fremont Factory using battery cells from Japan. Battery cells for the Model 3 and Y are made on-site at Tesla's Gigafactory Nevada and assembled into battery packs before being shipped to Fremont. Both battery pack types are liquid-cooled and contain an intumescent fire prevention ...
By January 2017, was being produced at Tesla Gigafactory 1 for the Tesla Model 3, [219] reaching a production rate of 1.8 billion cells annually (20 GWh per year) by mid-2018. [220] Also used for stationary storage (Tesla Powerwall 2 and Powerpack 2) [ 221 ] and larger electronic cigarettes.
An electric vehicle battery is a rechargeable battery used to power the electric motors of a battery electric vehicle (BEV) or hybrid electric vehicle (HEV). They are typically lithium-ion batteries that are designed for high power-to-weight ratio and energy density. Compared to liquid fuels, most current battery technologies have much lower ...
A larger model—Powerwall 2—went into mass production in early 2017 at Tesla's Giga Nevada factory, with a more capable model with an internal DC–to–AC inverter—Powerwall 3—entering production in late 2023. As of May 2021, Tesla had installed 200,000 Powerwalls.
As of 2018, the most important manufacturer of NCA batteries was reportedly Panasonic, or Panasonic's cooperation partner Tesla, [2] as Tesla uses NCA as active material in the traction batteries of its car models. [12] [13] In Tesla Model 3 [5] and Tesla Model X, LiNi 0.84 Co 0.12 Al 0.04 O 2 is used. [14]
Gigafactory New York. Gigafactory New York (also known as Giga New York or Gigafactory 2) [3] is factory leased by Tesla, Inc. in the Riverbend section of Buffalo, New York. The factory, owned by the State of New York, was built on brownfield land remediated from a former steel mill. Construction of the factory started in 2014 and was completed ...