Today, Panasonic, one of the battery suppliers for Tesla, announced that they will build a new campus in the Reno area, located about 25 miles from the Nevada Gigafactory, which includes facilities for training, research, and employee recruitment.
The facility is expected to open in the spring of 2022 and will cover an area of approximately 94,483 square feet, and will be an important part of PENA’s (Panasonic Energy North America) electric vehicle strategic deployment. The new campus will serve as PENA’s headquarters and will have an engineering laboratory.
In fact, as early as September 2020, Panasonic had begun to expand its operational strategy for the Nevada Gigafactory order in preparation for large-scale production. According to Panasonic’s Q3 2021 financial results conference call, they have expanded their global electric vehicle battery manufacturing capacity to 50 GWh.
Currently, Panasonic only manufactures approximately 37 GWh of 2170 cylindrical batteries at the Nevada Gigafactory.
“We have shown that we are constantly developing and staying at the forefront of the market with our new campus in Reno,” said Allan Swan, president of PENA.
PENA currently employs over 4,000 people, and their cooperation with Tesla is still going well. At present, Panasonic is likely to receive one of its most important projects–the “Tesla 4680 cylindrical battery project”–this large order.
🔗 Source: Panasonic Official
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