Tesla is on the brink of ramp up its in-house battery manufacturing of the proprietary 4680 cells close to its EV manufacturing unit in Fremont, California. The automaker signed a lease not way back for a producing middle that was for use for important battery tech and manufacturing, most probably for the much-needed 4680 cells.

The details about the lease got here from sources accustomed to the matter, who leaked it to Enterprise Instances. The publication printed that Tesla had leased 210,000 sq. ft of producing area from Prologis and that it might be used for 4680 battery cells.

Tesla has been ramping up its personal 4680 battery cell manufacturing for a while now, principally at a pilot plant on Kato Street, close to the Fremont manufacturing unit. By Q3 of 2022, Tesla has already tripled its inside 4680 cell output, and the corporate’s board gave approval to ramp it up. In keeping with Teslarati, Zachary Kirkhon shared on the time:

“Yeah, [4680] ramp goes effectively, as Elon stated. Complete output is up 3x quarter over quarter, and manufacturing is monitoring to exceed 1,000 automobile cells per week this quarter as we stated final quarter. Our focus is now shifting from 100% ramp to value and additional increasing manufacturing capability in North America, as Elon additionally talked about.”

Tesla stated it had reached a manufacturing capability of about 1,000 4680 cells per week on the finish of final 12 months. The EV maker’s long-term aim is to get to 100 Gigawatt hours (GWh) yearly as soon as it ramps up its new plans at Giga Nevada. The longer-term aim is to ultimately hit 1,000 GWh.

The corporate additionally assured that its 4680 cell pursuits mustn’t trigger concern for its 2170 cells. Tesla intends to proceed to have a look at totally different battery cell shapes, sizes, and chemistries, and lean on different companions to assist provide it with the batteries it wants along with these it is producing in-house. 

Tesla nonetheless depends on many battery companions, together with CATL, LG Power Options, and, in fact, Panasonic. It additionally reportedly simply began shopping for EV battery cells from BYD.