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Tesla Giga Nevada celebrates 5 million drive unit production milestone

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Tesla Giga Nevada is pretty underrated as far as the electric vehicle maker’s facilities are concerned, but the massive battery and drive unit production facility remains a crucial part of the company’s operations. Congratulations Giga Nevada team on building their 5 Millionth Drive Unit! 40GWh of packs/modules/cells.

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Tesla Semi has shipped over 20k battery packs out of Giga Nevada

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The Tesla Semi has been proving itself in real-world situations, with the company’s fleet of all-electric Class 8 trucks transporting over 20,000 battery packs from Gigafactory Nevada to the Fremont Factory. Every day, the Tesla Semi demonstrates that battery electric trucks can directly replace diesel trucks.

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Tesla Fremont and Giga Nevada have built 3 million cars

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Tesla has celebrated the production of three million cars across its Fremont factory and Gigafactory Nevada, just under two years after surpassing two million at the sites. On Friday evening, in a post on X , Tesla’s main account shared a congratulations to Fremont and Giga Nevada, celebrating the accomplishment.

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Tesla lays off more workers at Giga Nevada plant

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Tesla is looking to lay off more workers at its Gigafactory in Nevada, coming as the latest in the company’s efforts to trim its workforce globally. After the company sent a letter to affected workers globally noting that they would be let go earlier this month, multiple additional rounds of layoffs have hit the company.

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Tesla's Nevada Gigafactory expansion: Batteries for 1.5M EVs annually

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billion expansion of its Nevada battery "Gigafactory" that the company claims will supply over one million EVs annually. The investment will add 3,000 new jobs and two new factories at the Sparks, Nevada, site, Tesla said in what reads as a press release—with a few more details confirmed as part of Tesla's.

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New Tesla Semi jobs posted, including ones located in Sparks, Nevada

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The Tesla Semi jobs are in Sparks, Nevada; Palo Alto, California; and Austin, Texas. andra Merz (@TeslaBoomerMama) January 23, 2024 The new Tesla Semi jobs in Nevada might connect to the company’s construction project at its Sparks gigafactory. Tesla posted quite a few open jobs related to Semi production.

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Schlumberger New Energy Venture to launch a lithium extraction pilot plant in Nevada

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The deployment of the pilot plant will be in Clayton Valley, Nevada, USA. The NeoLith Energy sustainable approach uses a differentiated direct lithium extraction (DLE) process to enable the production of high-purity, battery-grade lithium material while reducing the production time from over a year to weeks.

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