The American manufacturer of electric cars Tesla announced this Tuesday in a press release an investment of “more than 3,600 million dollars” to expand its Nevada factory, in which its electric truck, called Semi, is manufactured in particular.
This is an amount slightly higher than the initial investment for the construction of the factory, which amounted to 3,500 million dollars in 2014, recalls Tesla.
In reality, two new factories will be created, the manufacturer specifies: the first will manufacture battery cells, with “the capacity to produce enough batteries for 1.5 million light vehicles per year”, and the second will be the “first discharge of Semi -volume manufacturing plant”.
Tesla plans to recruit 3,000 people there.
The Nevada plant is Tesla’s first “megafactory” and began producing batteries in 2017.
Since announcing the construction in 2014, Tesla says it has invested $6.2 billion in Nevada and directly hired more than 11,000 people.
Tesla today has four “megafactories”, in addition to the one in Nevada: New York, Shanghai, Berlin, and the last one, the one in Texas, which occupies an area equivalent to one hundred football fields, and has been operational since the end of 2021. .
Source: BFM TV
