Tesla may simply plan to build more than just cars at its billion-dollar meetinghouse in southeastern Travis County.
The vehicle manufacturer plans to produce battery cells on site, according to state documents, and the company has already announced that it will produce its Cybertruck, Semi, Model 3 and Model Y compact sedán cars at the plant.
Telsa has a structure on the Travis County site and the company has contracts in central Texas. Tesla’s task board currently lists more than 80 vacancies in Austin.
If a battery facility is added to the Travis CountyArray, it can be the first Tesla to jointly implement a battery and large-scale vehicle production, and be the vehicle assembly plant in the United States after its flagship product in Fremont, California. .
A corporate spokesperson responded to requests for comment. Tesla executives were expected to release the company’s third-quarter monetary report tuesday afternoon.
Amber Gunst, executive director of the Austin Technology Council, said on-site battery production would be charged at the Tesla leading to central Texas.
“Expanding battery production is wonderful news for the inhabitants of central Texas. This creates more homework opportunities for our citizens and puts Austin on the map only for electric vehicles, but as a position where all energy resource corporations are invited to grow. With the recent revolution in its services and the task opportunities already created, Tesla is already integrating a full member of our business community,” Gunst said.
The site plans presented to the city of Austin show that Tesla intends to build a large plant. Including car parks, the facility’s footprint is 7. 9 million square feet, leaving another 1,800 acres available for use on the 2,100 acres. site on Harold Green Road and Texas 130. La company also recently purchased 371 more acres next to this site, according to writing records.
Tesla and CEO Elon Musk announced in July that the company had selected Travis County for its new facilities.
The plant attracted Austin’s mastery in component through tax exemptions approved through Travis County and the Del Valle Independent School District, valued at a minimum of about $60 million combined. The company did not obtain any monetary incentive from the state to build the plant. expected to employ 5,000 people.
An application for an air quality permit filed with the Texas Environmental Quality Commission indicates that the facility would come with stamping, pressurized molding, drive unit meeting, mobile manufacturing, battery meeting, general meeting, and paint repair operations. Devices such as boilers, emergency engines, a wastewater treatment plant and a cooling tower.
“The facility proposes to operate a mobile production unit to produce the battery packs installed in the vehicle. The final product of this operation is mobile products,” says the folder.
The document filed between July and September on behalf of Tesla, as a component of an “regulated permitted” registration procedure that will allow the company to build equipment.
Last month, Musk said Tesla was looking to increase the company’s internal battery production. Tesla already produces batteries in Nevada and also works with outdoor suppliers. Musk said on the occasion of “Battery Day” that he hopes to start generating battery cells on a pilot production line in Fremont, in the end it is a very limited scale.
Daniel Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities, said Austin’s location can especially increase battery production for the company and optimize power by producing cars and batteries under one roof.
“Austin lends itself well to what Tesla is going to build,” he said. “Right now, in the (electric vehicle) market, this is the global thing about Tesla. Everyone else is paying rent.
Ives said Austin would be an “initial worker’s job” for Tesla as it expanded. The Austin plant could more than double the company’s production capacity in the United States, he said.
“I hope they will particularly expand their presence in Austin, given their engineering skills and geographic footprint, with respect to the regions of the United States where Tesla took five days to a week to succeed, they can now succeed at no time. 24 to 48 hours for delivery, ” said Ives.
Garrett Nelson, an analyst at CFRA Research, said Tesla tended to buy sites larger than mandatory ones to give the company a chance to grow over time. It is transparent that Tesla will increase battery production in the near future, he said. Austin can be just one component of that plan.
“This can come with a battery plant or just higher vehicle production,” Nelson said.
The battery plant can also contribute to the company’s competitive advantage. Nelson said Tesla is looking to increase annual production from around 500,000 cars this year to 20 million in the coming years. Battery production would be a necessity for these ambitious plans. Nelson said.
Nick Shields, an analyst at Third Bridge, said Austin would be a key location for Tesla, which sees Texas as its long-term market.
“Batteries are and their outsourcing is even moreArray, ” said Mr. Shields.