Tesla has introduced that it has produced its 100 millionth 4680 battery cell throughout all its factories. The replace got here simply over three months after the corporate introduced that it had produced a complete of fifty million 4680 cells.
The milestone was posted on Tesla’s official social media account on X. Tesla included a picture of its 100 millionth 4680 battery being held by an Optimus Gen 2 humanoid robotic in its submit.
Produced our 100 millionth 4680 cell throughout all our factories! pic.twitter.com/3P2dO35OWJ
— Tesla (@Tesla) September 14, 2024
Business watchers who’ve carefully watched the event of Tesla’s 4680 program have been fairly impressed with the electrical automobile maker’s latest milestone. Tesla, in any case, simply introduced on June 5 that it had produced its 50 millionth 4680 cell at Giga Texas.
Contemplating the 101 days which have elapsed for the reason that June announcement, Tesla seems to have produced, not less than on common, about 495,000 4680 cells per day. Every Cybertruck is outfitted with 1,344 4680 cells, so such a median output would translate to a manufacturing capability of about 368 Cybertrucks a day, or 2,578 per week.
Congrats 4680 Cell Manufacturing staff on constructing their 50 millionth battery cell at Giga Texas! pic.twitter.com/zMhzAOghLi
— Tesla (@Tesla) June 5, 2024
This additionally means that based mostly on the output of the 4680 battery cells, Tesla might produce 33,514 Cybertrucks per quarter, or about 134,280 items of the all-electric pickup truck per yr, as estimated by Tesla battery fanatic The Limiting Issue in a submit on X.
Latest aerial footage taken of the Giga Texas advanced reveals that the electrical automobile maker is tough at work ramping up the manufacturing of the Cybertruck. Regardless of this, latest estimates trace that Tesla remains to be simply closing in on producing 2,000 Cybertrucks per week.
Tesla simply reached 100 million 4680 cells produced! 🎉
The final replace was on the fifth of June the place they introduced 50 million cells produced.
There have been 101 days in that point span, which implies that on common, they produced 495,000 cells/day.
When it comes to Cybertrucks, that’s… https://t.co/uKppZjLrIN
— The Limiting Issue (@LimitingThe) September 14, 2024
This will likely then counsel that for now, not less than, the provision of 4680 cells is not the bottleneck for the Cybertruck’s manufacturing. In fact, Tesla can also be stockpiling some 4680 cells in preparation for the Cybertruck’s enhance in manufacturing as soon as the Basis Collection formally ends.
The progress of Tesla’s 4680 battery cell program has been exceptional this yr. Introduced in Tesla’s 2020 Battery Day occasion, the 4680 cell program noticed notable delays, to the purpose the place firm critics have been claiming that Elon Musk would possibly quit on the entire program. Earlier this yr, nevertheless, a report from China emerged stating that Tesla is lastly planning on mass producing the “full” model of the 4680 cell—which features a dry optimistic and damaging electrode—by the tip of this yr.
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