Tesla has secured a brand new location in Fremont, California, to broaden its 4680 battery cell manufacturing, in line with a brand new report.

When Tesla unveiled its personal new cell format, the 4680 battery cell, it ventured into manufacturing its personal battery cells for the primary time.

Previous to that time, Tesla had at all times purchased battery cells from suppliers to place in its electrical autos.

The automaker established manufacturing at a facility in Fremont close to its automotive manufacturing facility and it’s increasing into larger-scale manufacturing at Gigafactory Texas in Austin.

Now San Francisco Enterprise Occasions studies that Tesla secured a brand new constructing in Fremont:

The Austin-based electrical automobile producer (NASDAQ: TSLA) signed a lease for 48401 Fremont Blvd., two sources instructed the Enterprise Occasions. San Francisco industrial actual property funding belief Prologis (NYSE: PLD) owns the 210,000-square-foot superior manufacturing facility.

The brand new constructing is situated proper throughout the road from Tesla’s pilot manufacturing plant for 4680 cells in Fremont.

The Enterprise Occasions studies that Tesla plans to make use of the situation to broaden its 4680 cell manufacturing:

The power will help manufacturing of Tesla’s 4680 battery cell expertise, in line with one of many sources, who had direct data of the deal however was not approved to debate it publicly. The 4680 cell, a extra environment friendly and longer-lasting battery expertise, is anticipated to be an important a part of the corporate’s rollout of its Cybertruck automobile later this 12 months.

As we beforehand acknowledged, whereas Tesla referred to as its 4680 battery facility in Fremont a “pilot manufacturing facility”, it had a deliberate manufacturing capability of 10 GWh, which is greater than many regular battery factories.