GigaFactory is the largest factory in the world of solar powered batteries. It is building in the Nevada desert Elon Musk, Tesla's patron, SpaceX, and other initiatives at a very high-tech.
According tells the same Musk in DiCaprio Event Horizon Leonardo documentary - Before the Flood, 100 factories such as this could produce such a quantity of green batteries to meet the energy needs of the world. Possible?
The plant was inaugurated last July but is currently only 14% complete. Completed, it will have an extension of 100 football fields will be the second largest building in the world (the first is the shipyard in Everett, where Boeing) are built and provide jobs for over 20,000 people, including the armature.
Goal of this huge industrial complex is to exploit the economies of scale to lower costs rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used by Musk on his Tesla. The production of the batteries should start in 2017 and be fully operational by 2020.
MORE BATTERIES, NOT CARE. According to Techcrunch by that date the cost of batteries will drop from the current $ 190 per kWh less than 130. A saving of 30% which should push sales of the Tesla beyond 50,000 units per year of 2015 (0.07% of total cars sold in the world and less than 10% of electrical).
But in Musk GigaFactory intentions will also support powerwall, domestic battery manufactured by Tesla that you can also recharge with solar energy (and therefore could also be used to recharge the car's battery by a run at the cost and zero emissions).
The LIKE ELECTRICAL. In fact, the market for the past two years has recognized the advantages of the electric car: from 376,000 cars sold in 2014 we moved to 540,000 in 2015. That still are few when compared to the 72 million new cars with conventional engine put into circulation .
CURRENT FOR ALL. According to the entrepreneur, accumulators of this kind will be essential for the development of poorer countries, because it will allow to have large amounts of electricity for domestic and industrial activities without having to build power plants and large plants.
From the technological point of view the batteries that come out from GigaFactory will be state of the art technology: lithium-ion battery and will be particularly efficient in accumulating and storing energy. But will the final solution to the problem of clean mobility?
BEYOND THE LITHIUM. Probably not. Since being introduced to the market for the first time by Sony in 1991, lithium-ion batteries in 25 years has doubled its capacity. Therefore difficult to think of their further significant evolution over the next 10-15 years it is much more likely that this technology will be replaced by something completely new and different.
HOW MUCH DOES THE GREEN? The estimated cost of GigaFactory is over 5 billion dollars, an enormous sum for Tesla, which can not, at least in the medium term, deal with the construction of other similar factories.
For this Musk, in the documentary, try raising large corporations around the world: 100 plants of this type could really help reduce appreciably pollution and global warming problem.
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