This was the building of the “Gigafabrika” in 2016
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The publication Las Vegas Review reports The leakage of harmful chemicals at the Tesla factory for the production of batteries. As a result of the accident, one person, a factory employee, was injured. He was hospitalized, as far as you can understand, nothing threatens the life of a person.
Part of the staff was evacuated. According to the Director of Emergency Situations of County Story Joe Curtis, the problem lies in the fact that several barrels with an “unidentified cleaning agent” turned upside-down from other sections of the section. In addition to the employee, who was placed in the hospital, six other people felt badly.
Now a special service is working at the factory, which is engaged in cleaning the contaminated area. There are no threats to the surrounding regions and their inhabitants. A representative of the company, Dave Arnold, asserts that there are no more threats to the life or health of the company’s employees.
According to the plan previously presented by Mask, the annual production of Tesla’s batteries at Gigababrika will soon exceed the worldwide production of Li-Ion batteries in 2013. In a year the corporation plans to produce batteries as much as necessary to create 500 thousand electric vehicles Model 3. By 2018 the production volume will be increased up to 35 GWh. This is about half of the world’s battery production.
In addition to batteries for Tesla electric vehicles, the company also produces elements for Powerpack and Powerwall – energy storage in private households or small businesses. Such systems factory can serve as an independent unit of the energy infrastructure of an apartment or a house, or work together with the Solar Roof panels that Mask recently told.
By the way, Mask himself calls the production, which is still being built in Nevada (the factory does not work at full capacity) “Gigafabrika of accumulators number 1”. It may well be that after a while the factory will start building other factories, possibly with the involvement of partners. Its first production Ilon Mask was built with Toshiba. “In the future, it will take a lot of gigafabrik. Many companies will implement similar projects on their own, “said Mask.
The incident that has occurred in production is unlikely to affect the developing business of the Battery Mask. This is so far an isolated case, and not of the largest scale. In the world of such incidents – a large number. On this accident, most likely, no one would pay attention if the accident did not occur at the Tesla plant. The more closely the Mask needs to monitor its enterprises – from a small problem, companies that oppose it can make a large-scale incident
