PowerCo awards construction contracts for St. Thomas gigafactory, Canada On August 21, PowerCo awarded two major construction contracts for its electric vehicle (EV) battery gigafactory in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. PowerCo will partner with the Steelcon Group of Companies for the structural steel work on the gigafactory, while Magil Construction Canada will develop the foundations of the gigafactory. The St. Thomas gigafactory will have three ...

News  Updated at: 2025/08/22

InoBat starts construction of GIB Šurany Gigafactory in Slovakia On August 16, Marian Bocek, CEO of InoBat, announced that the construction of the GIB Šurany gigafactory in Slovakia had officially begun. The plant is a joint venture between Gotion High Tech and InoBat. In its initial stage, it will have a capacity of 20 GWh, with the potential to expand to 40 GWh. The project, once completed, will make Slovakia not only the largest automotive p...

News  Updated at: 2025/08/18

PowerCo begins hiring campaign for Canada gigafactory On August 6, 2025, PowerCo Canada launched its first hiring campaign for its upcoming battery gigafactory in St. Thomas, Ontario. PowerCo looks to add hundreds of employees across a wide range of positions during this initial hiring phase, including chemists, IT professionals, engineers, and sustainability professionals. PowerCo Canada currently has more than 200 employees and hopes to create ...

News  Updated at: 2025/08/09

la established a subsidiary named “Tesla Motors India Energy Private Limited”. At that time, there was considerable discussion and optimism regarding investments, with the Indian government expressing a warm welcome for Tesla to establish significant projects, particularly the building of a new Gigafactory in the country. However, after that initial excitement, progress stalled.In early 2024, the Indian government launched a special Battery E...

News  Updated at: 2025/07/31

e on Chinese imports due to U.S. tariffs. Tesla's energy storage and generation business accounts for just over 10% of its revenue but has been a bright spot as it struggles with slowing car sales. Tesla said its first LFP cell manufacturing facility in Nevada will be online by the end of 2025, but Gigafactory Nevada will likely account for a small portion of its demand. (multiple sources on July 30, 2025)...

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esigned with a pass-through layout, creating a more spacious and practical cabin. Such modifications and more affordable pricing would seem to position the entry level Model Y for fleet duty with robotaxi companies.  The more affordable Model Y has been in pilot production mode and will ramp up at Gigafactory Texas in Q3 to launch on the U.S. market in Q4 after expiration of the EV tax credits.  (multiple sources on July 28, 2025)...

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Tesla CEO Musk gives update on affordable model plans During its Q2 2025 earnings call, Tesla revealed some new details regarding the production plans of the affordable vehicles at its Gigafactory Texas. In the Q2 release, Tesla said it successfully completed “first builds of a more affordable model in June, with volume production planned for the second half of 2025.” In the earnings call following, CEO Elon Musk confirmed these affordable ve...

News  Updated at: 2025/07/30

Stellantis Douvrin plant to halt production of combustion engine by 2026, CFE-CGC union demands stronger worker support On July 24, the CFE-CGC union confirmed that Stellantis will shut down its Douvrin plant, France in 2026, following an announcement at the Works Council meeting. As Stellantis shifts toward electric mobility, with the nearby ACC gigafactory focusing on battery production, the union stresses the urgent need for proper support for...

News  Updated at: 2025/07/25

Q2 2024), 373,728 were Models 3/Y (down 11.5% from 422,405 in 2024), and 10,394 were other models (down 51.8% from 21,551 in Q2 2024). Tesla said its lithium refining and cathode production plants remain on track to begin production in 2025, as well as domestic production of its first LFP cells at Gigafactory Nevada for energy storage products later in 2025. The purpose-built Cybercab continues the development of its “unboxed” manufacturing ...

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na’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s website on July 16, LG Energy Solution will be the supplier of lithium-ion batteries for the new Model Y L variant, which will have a top speed of 201 km (125 miles) per hour, the same as the regular Model Y. The vehicle will be produced at Gigafactory Shanghai, along with the Model Y and Model 3. (Weibo and other sources on July 16, 2025)...

News  Updated at: 2025/07/17

UKBIC). Under the project codenamed PRIMED, Ilika will now build and test its P2 solid-state battery cells and develop them into a 50Ah A-Sample through an industrialisation process. HSSMI will support the project by creating a production scale model and business case review to help plan for future gigafactory-level manufacturing. Based on Ilika press release...

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ant, with plans to establish an annual production capacity of approximately 32 GWh in the future. Panasonic Energy’s high-capacity lithium-ion cells feature an industry-leading volumetric energy density of 800 Wh/L. As the company’s second EV battery production site in the region, following the Gigafactory Nevada site it shares with Tesla, which has been operating since 2017 with the current annual capacity of approximately 41 GWh, the Kansas...

News  Updated at: 2025/07/15

000 lower than it was on July 10, and only the Model Y Long Range AWD is offered. While Tesla lowered the price of the Model Y, Tesla’s other vehicles in Canada have maintained their tariff-pricing and have seen no price reductions. This indicates that Tesla has decided to import the Model Y from Gigafactory Berlin, which only produces the Model Y. The fact that Tesla is talking about deliveries in “Sep – Oct 2025” for new orders also sup...

News  Updated at: 2025/07/12

to check prices, compare different models, and choose from various trims. Customers can start configuring and ordering as early as next week, and a second showroom is likely to open soon after in New Delhi, according to the sources. Tesla's first batch of Model Ys for India has already arrived from Gigafactory Shanghai. Available custom records from January to June showed Tesla imported vehicles, chargers and accessories into India worth close to...

News  Updated at: 2025/07/12

hey are projected to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by approximately 91 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent. The following projects have been selected for funding: ACCEPT Automotive Cells Company European Production Take-off, located in France (Automotive Cells Company ACC) AGATHE – Advanced Gigafactory Aiming at Tempering greenhouse gas Emissions, located in France (Verkor) CF3_at_Scale – Scaling of innovative manufacturing processes fo...

News  Updated at: 2025/07/07

Tesla completes autonomous customer delivery from Gigafactory Texas On June 27, Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed that one of its newly produced vehicles has, for the first time, delivered itself to a customer autonomously, one day ahead of the company’s original schedule. In May, Musk announced that the first-ever fully autonomous delivery of a Tesla would take place on June 28. The plan was to have the car roll off the production lines at Gigafac...

News  Updated at: 2025/07/01

Tesla nears completion of LFP battery manufacturing facility in Nevada On June 28, Tesla announced on social media that it is nearing completion of the company’s first Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) cell manufacturing factory in North America.  The LFP battery factory is part of the broader expansion of Gigafactory Nevada near Sparks, Nevada with some production line equipment acquired from China's CATL.  The initial capacity of the Nevada LFP ...

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ficiency and scalability, laying the groundwork for higher-volume B1 sample production.  Compared to the prior-generation Raptor process, Cobra offers a ~25x improvement in heat treatment speed and occupies a fraction of the physical space per film start, key advantages in the design of a scalable gigafactory production line. (QuantumScape release on June 24, 2025)...

News  Updated at: 2025/06/26

Tesla Gigafactory Texas reported to close for one week at end of June On June 17, Tesla shares slid after it was reported that the company will be pausing production of its Cybertruck and Model Y vehicles at its Gigafactory Texas for a week starting June 30. Tesla told employees the stoppage is intended to allow the company to perform maintenance and improvements on the production lines. Tesla indicated these improvements will support a ramp-up i...

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of the public and take drive around via the ride-sharing service, though earlier trials included someone in the drivers’ seat. The rides, with about ten Model Ys, will operate in a small geofenced area in the south Austin area, which is roughly thirty minutes from end to end, and not too far from Gigafactory Texas. The first rides kicked off at around 2 p.m. local time in Austin. Passengers are confined to the back row of the Model Y, while a T...

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