{"id":124,"date":"2014-05-02T09:31:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T09:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/?p=124"},"modified":"2014-05-16T15:29:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T15:29:26","slug":"tesla-gigafactory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Gigafactory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tesla-assembly-line.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-125\" alt=\"tesla-assembly-line\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tesla-assembly-line.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tesla-assembly-line.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tesla-assembly-line-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tesla-assembly-line-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a>The current Tesla plant in California. (<a href=\"http:\/\/newmexico.watchdog.org\/21299\/still-no-word-on-tesla-on-which-state-will-win-the-giga-factory-sweepstakes\/\">photo credit<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teslamotors.com\/blog\/gigafactory\">Gigafactory<\/a> is a giant battery production facility planned by Tesla, to be built in one of the following states: Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, or California. It&#8217;s a powerful effort to force down lithium-ion battery costs by bringing together all the members of the supply chain and consolidating the process in one location. Tesla can do this because it buys a lot of batteries, but also because it has star power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tesla is the most exciting thing in batteries at the moment<\/strong>. Lithium-ion battery cost is about $500\/kWh, and Tesla wants to bring that down significantly to make electric vehicles a reality for everyone (not just people who can afford expensive cars). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/sarwantsingh\/2014\/02\/27\/elon-musks-500000-unit-battery-plant-myth-or-reality\/\">Some analysts believe<\/a> that lithium-ion batteries, as they are currently constructed, have an inherent limitation between $200-300\/kWh. This is due to the production costs and the materials (active material, electrolyte, etc). The target cost for electric vehicle batteries is lower than that, under $200\/kWh, but it seems like Tesla&#8217;s effort will go a long way to making it work. Other battery applications, like utility-scale stationary batteries, will need to be even cheaper though. So it&#8217;s clear <strong>other battery chemistries<\/strong> will need to fill that space.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current Tesla plant in California. (photo credit) The Gigafactory is a giant battery production facility planned by Tesla, to be built in one of the following states: Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, or California. It&#8217;s a powerful effort to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/?p=124\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}