Tesla will build a second assembly plant in US
- Tesla, the world's leading producer of battery electric vehicles (367,820 sales in 2019), will build a second assembly plant in the United States, near Austin (Texas), the first being located since 2012 in California in Fremont. This brand new plant, which should start in production in 2022, will then be the fourth owned by the carmaker, as Tesla has a plant in Shanghai (China), since the start of 2020 and will have another plant in 2022, this time located in Germany, near Berlin.
- Each plant will eventually be set to produce for the local market. This is the reason why the Tesla plant in Texas will be dedicated to the production of the battery electric pickup named Cybertruck, because the pickup market is almost entirely North American.
This pick-up with a very particular design was unveiled in 2020, but is scheduled to be marketed in 2022.
This pick-up with a very particular design was unveiled in 2020, but is scheduled to be marketed in 2022.
- The plant will also produce the Semi, the first all-electric truck, scheduled for 2024. If demand was not sufficient for these two utility vehicles, the plant would produce Model 3 and Model Y, said Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla.
- The capacities of the Texas plant, initially set at 150,000 vehicles per year, could therefore be increased to 300,000 units per year and then 450,000 units per year eventually depending on demand.
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