Drone Video Shows Tesla's Fremont Facility in All its Glory - Transport Evolved
Due to be completed some time next year, the Tesla Gigafactory is estimated to churn out somewhere between 50 and 100 gigawatt-hours of lithium-ion battery packs per year, and when complete will be the world’s biggest lithium-ion manufacturing and... But amidst all of the excitement surrounding the Tesla gigafactory, it’s all too easy to forget the Fremont facility where Tesla Motors [NASDAQ:TSLA] builds its Model S electric car and will soon built its Model X crossover SUV is pretty... Indeed, when we first visited the Fremont facility back in October 2011 , only a small proportion of the facility was being used by the Californian automaker, with much of the facility lying dormant for use at a later time. Now, as the done video shows, hundreds of Tesla cars can be seen neatly parked in the attached parking lots around the Tesla facility, while rows of trailers sit at loading bays, presumably supplying the facility with all the raw materials needed... facility (NUMMI for short), the automotive plant now home to Tesla opened in 1984 under a joint venture between General Motors and Toyota. Source: transportevolved.com
