What will be made at the Tesla Gigafactory?
Tesla Gigafactory Europe Tesla Gigafactory Europe Tesla Gigafactory Europe is a proposed manufacturing plant for Tesla, Inc. to be located in Europe. A location has yet to be decided, though Germany is a leading choice as of 19 June 2018. The gigafactory would be completely separate from Tesla's existing European headquarters and final assembly plant in Tilburg, Netherlands. The factory is to be a combined electric battery manufacturing facility and automobile factory. In 2016, Tesla was anticipating to announce the factory in 2017. The factory was previously referred to as Gigafactory 2 until 22 February 2017, when Tesla began to refer to the
Tesla Gigafactory Europe SolarCity Gigafactory in Buffalo, New York as Gigafactory 2. The Europe Gigafactory will be named either Gigafactory 4 or 5. Reported locations considered in 2016–2017 were the Czech Republic near Prague, with a nearby 330 kilotonne lithium deposit, Portugal, with Europe's biggest lithium reserves and one of the biggest solar centers in the world, near Zakopane, Poland, and Hungary. Germany's then-Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Sigmar Gabriel stated that Tesla was in talks with the government during 2015 over a Gigafactory there. Several countries have campaigned to have the factory located within their jurisdictions. There is intense competition