Tesla intends to mass-produce new batteries in Germany

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 26 (Reporter Wang Xinfang) Several sources said that American car company Tesla intends to mass-produce new batteries with better performance at a battery factory planned to be built near Berlin, Germany. Deutsche News Agency reported on the 25th from a number of industry sources that the new battery model is 4680. The energy density is said to be 5 times higher than that of the current model. It takes up less space and consumes less energy. Electric vehicles need to be installed inside. The number of batteries is therefore reduced, but the cruising range can be increased by 16%. On January 7, 2020, at the Tesla Super Factory in Shanghai, Tesla CEO Musk attended the delivery ceremony of Model 3 made in China. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ding Ting) Tesla plans to build a super factory in Greenheide, Brandenburg, not far from Berlin, which is divided into two parts: a car factory and a battery factory, producing ModelY electric cars and new batteries. . The German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy approved the company's preliminary plan for building a battery plant last week. According to Deutsche News Agency, ModelY electric vehicles will first use new batteries, and other models such as trucks will be installed later. The battery plant has not yet determined the start of construction time, but the construction of the car plant on the same site has already begun. On November 6, 2020, people visit the Tesla Model 3 electric car in the automobile exhibition area of u200bu200bthe 3rd China International Import Expo. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ding Ting) Tesla previously said that the car factory will start operations in July, with an annual output of up to 500,000 vehicles and employing 12,000 employees. The company currently plans to recruit more than 1,000 employees for the battery factory. According to the auto industry news website Torque News, Tesla is currently only trial-produced 4680 batteries at a factory in Fremont, California, USA. Once completed, the Greenhead Battery Factory will become the world's largest electric vehicle battery factory. It is estimated that the total annual output of battery energy storage can reach 20,000 MWh.