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Tesla to Build ‘Gigafactory’ Plant in Nevada

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teslaJPG?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1409836078380Tesla Motors(NEW YORK) — Tesla Motors is planning to build a $5 billion factory outside of Reno, Nevada to produce hundreds of thousands of batteries for its next generation of mass-produced electric cars.

The company says the 10 million-square-foot plant will employ about 6,500 people.

Tesla’s choice of Nevada over California, Texas, Arizona and New Mexico takes it a big step closer to mass producing an electric car that costs around $35,000 and can go 200 miles on a single charge. This range is critical because it lets people take most daily trips without recharging, a major barrier to the widespread adoption of electric vehicles.

The “gigafactory,” as Tesla calls the project, would bring the cost of batteries down by producing them on a huge scale.

Tesla plans to open the factory by 2017.


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