What is Tesla's world biggest battery plant "Giga Factory" built in the desert?

In the desert in the state of Nevada, America which is sunny 300 days a year, the electric car company's "Tesla Motors"In cooperation with Panasonic, becoming the world's largest battery factory"GIGA FACTORYConstruction started in June 2014.

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The attraction of Giga Factory was battle in the five provinces of Nevada, California, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, and finally Nevada was decided to construct Giga Factory. In the next 20 years Giga Factory will generate 20,000 jobs and it is estimated that it will bring about 100 billion dollars (about 12 trillion yen) of economic effect to the region. Gigafactory will employ up to 6,500 people in 2020, sell 500,000 electric vehicles and plan to turn Tesla into black. Also, by 2020 GIGA FACTORY will reach its maximum production capacity, and the number of lithium ion batteries produced in a year will exceed the total number of batteries produced worldwide in 2013.


Nevada has undertaken tax cuts of 1.3 billion dollars (about 150 billion yen) as a preferential treatment to Tesla, and the attraction of Giga Factory for Nevada provinceHoover DamIt may be a big project since then. However, some economists raise doubts about the allocation of expensive budget to one company.

Tesla needs to cooperate with the company, school, and government to secure talent necessary for GIGA FACTORY. However, Tesla does not disclose the conditions necessary for working at GIGA FACTORY because it does not disclose company information as many Silicon Valley companies do. Therefore, vocational training institutions and others are in a state of not knowing how to do vocational training for GIGA FACTORY.


The condition for Tesla to receive subsidies is "You need to hire over 50% of the people hiring at Gigafactory from residents of Nevada state". Quarterly, subsidy condition surveys are being conducted and according to recent data, Tesla seems to have employed 80% of the people hired at GIGA FACTORY from Nevada residents. In addition, Tesla offers Nevada State of Battery research cost of university of 1 million dollars (about 120 million yen) and education cost of 37.5 million dollars (about 4.5 billion yen) from kindergarten to high school graduation.


Even if Tesla's electric car sales become sluggish, we can use the lithium-ion battery produced by Giga Factory for other electrical equipment. Surprisingly, lithium ion batteries are said to have more demand for renewable energy than electric cars. Some experts point out that the demand for batteries in Panasonic has disappeared due to the development of notebook computers and tablets, as lithium-ion batteries are already overfilled.