To: Eric who wrote (78165 ) 7/10/2017 1:01:15 PM From: Eric Read Replies (1) | Respond to VW: The World Will Need 40 More Gigafactories By 2025 6 hours ago by Sebastian Blanco 9 Comments Hundreds, in fact . The way that Tesla uses the term gigafactory, it means a factory “with a planned annual battery production capacity of 35 gigawatt-hours (GWh)”, but it basically means a place where an automaker or other manufacturer can build massive amounts of batteries. It’s emblematic of Tesla’s electric vehicle lead that the term the company uses is being adopted by other automakers. In this case, it’s Volkswagen, which is saying that the world will need 40 new gigafactories in the next few years.first Tesla location, in Nevada ) by 2025. That’s not all that long from now, and as we know from the costs and issues in Nevada , there’s no time like the present to break ground.as many plug-in vehicles as VW plans to , then that number shoots right up.building a gigafactory in China and Tesla – surprise, surprise – said earlier this year that it would announce the locations of four more gigafactories by the end of 2017, including perhaps one in the U.S . Daimler just started work on a gigafactory-like plant as well.insideevs.com Automotive News
