Tesla unveils revamped EV factory


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Tesla NUMMI factory showcases green manufacturing as Model S electric sedan moves toward mass production, with Toyota partnership, Fremont workforce expansion, 300-mile range, 3-5 hour charging, and federal tax credits driving EV adoption.

 

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Tesla's Fremont plant, a former GM-Toyota NUMMI site, retooled to mass-produce Model S EVs using green manufacturing.

  • Former GM-Toyota NUMMI site in Fremont, CA
  • Retooled for Model S mass production starting 2012
  • 300-mile range and 3-5 hour charging capability
  • Workforce growing from 70 to about 1,200 at peak

 

Electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc. has unveiled its retooled factory in Fremont where it plans to produce its next-generation electric sedan in partnership with Toyota.

 

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and local officials were on hand as the company showed off changes to the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. factory, known as Nummi.

"It says that we can have a blue-collar manufacturing base, but it says if we're smart, that manufacturing base is green. It's green energy. That's the future," Feinstein said during a ceremony at the sprawling plant that Tesla bought in May.

Although production of the Model S sedan is not expected to begin until 2012, when Tesla plans to build the electric sedan in California at the plant, Tesla spokeswoman Khobi Brooklyn said new equipment needed to make electric cars has already been brought in. She said about 70 workers have been hired.

The work force is expected to be around 1,200 when production reaches its peak, mirroring how a Los Angeles suburb's EV plant is being counted on for local jobs as well.

"This plant was really the one that we always hoped we could get but really didn't think we could ever afford," said Musk.

Nummi was a joint venture between General Motors Co. and Toyota until the Detroit auto giant filed for bankruptcy last year. Tesla is now in a partnership with Toyota and plans to open a powertrain plant in Palo Alto to bolster production capacity.

The Model S is designed to travel more than 300 miles on a three- to five-hour charge. Tesla plans to sell the electric sedan for $49,900, including federal tax credits, and expects to receive $350 million in government funds to support production.

"Model S is blazing a new trail for the industry, and it will all happen right here," Musk said. "This is a momentous day in Tesla history, turning our advanced electric vehicle technology into a mass manufacturing reality as it slashes production costs this year."

 

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