According to reports, Tesla recently submitted an application to the city of Austin, Texas, to expand the Texas Gigafactory with an expansion area of 500,000 square feet (about 46,500 square meters).
Tesla’s Texas Gigafactory is already a huge building. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has previously said the factory is 15 city blocks long, larger than any building in the world. However, the current Gigafactory occupies only a fraction of the land Tesla has acquired, so the expansion is not surprising.
Tesla said in the filing that it will expand the areas of Factory 2 and Factory 3, so the expansion will be related to Tesla’s vehicle production activities. Considering that the Texas Gigafactory will produce not only the Model Y but other models as well, the expansion of the factory is also normal.
Musk had previously expected that upcoming models such as the Tesla CyberTruck and Semi would begin production sometime next year. While the production plant for the Semi has yet to be identified, the production location for the CyberTruck has been confirmed as the Texas Gigafactory.
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