Elon Musk inaugurates Tesla Gigafactory in Texas, bigger than 100 Football fields

Elon Musk's electric car firm, Tesla, has opened its Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, as part of his plan to take his electric car company to the next level with the manufacturing of Cybertruck. According to The Verge, Tesla organised a "Cyber Rodeo" event, inviting 15,000 people to listen to live music, consume food, and pay homage to Elon Musk and his firm.

"We are really entering a new phase of Tesla`s future. I can`t wait to see this baby in production, it`s going to be epic," said Musk at the event. Along with Cybertruck, the company also displayed a new Roadster vehicle that is likely to go into production next year. The Texas Gigafactory is fourth Tesla manufacturing facility in the US, after Fremont, California, a battery factory in Sparks, Nevada and a solar factory in Buffalo, New York.

Giga Texas is the largest factory building in the world by volume. According to our calculations, you could fit a 194 billion hamsters in this building" - @elonmusk
pic.twitter.com/i0nu8O2wML — Tesla Owners Silicon Valley (@teslaownersSV) April 8, 2022

Tesla also has a factory in Shanghai and recently opened its first European factory near Berlin, Germany. "We need a place where we can be really big, and there`s no place like Texas. We going to move to a truly massive scale," Musk was quoted as saying.

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Tesla delivered 310,048 vehicles in the first quarter of 2022, despite what Musk said was an "exceptionally difficult quarter", citing global supply chain issues and a brief closure at Tesla`s Shanghai factory.

Tesla said the Model 3 and Y made up 295,324 of these deliveries, while 14,724 were for the Model S and X, reports The Verge. At its Texas factory, Tesla will make its long-delayed Cybertruck.

The automaker aims to complete Cybertruck development this year for production in 2023. When Tesla unveiled the Cybertruck back in 2019, Tesla said that the electric pickup truck would make it to market by the end of 2021. As the deadline was approaching, the automaker confirmed that production slipped to 2022.

Musk later said that Tesla was targeting a start of production for the electric pickup truck in "late 2022" at Gigafactory Texas.

With inputs from IANS

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