China Greenlights Another Big Tesla Factory, This Time For Megapack Project
China Greenlights Another Big Tesla Factory, This Time For Megapack Project
EV giant Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) has reportedly received approval from the Office of the Management Committee of Lingang New Area, China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone, for its new megafactory project.
據報道，電動汽車巨頭特斯拉公司（納斯達克股票代碼：TSLA）的新大型工廠項目已獲得中國（上海）自由貿易試驗區臨港新區管理委員會辦公室的批准。
What Happened: The project is located in Nanhui New Town, Pudong New Area, and will cover over 204,000 square meters, local media platform Pandaily reported on Thursday. Tesla currently has only one megafactory, located in Lathrop, California.
發生了什麼：當地媒體平台Pandaily週四報道，該項目位於浦東新區南匯新城，將佔地超過20.4萬平方米。特斯拉目前只有一家位於加利福尼亞州拉斯羅普的大型工廠。
A Megapack is a powerful stationary battery that stabilizes the grid. Each unit can store over 3.9 MWh of energy or enough to power an average of 3600 homes for one hour, according to Tesla.
Megapack 是一種強大的固定電池，可以穩定電網。根據特斯拉的數據，每個單元可以儲存超過3.9兆瓦時的能量，足以爲3600戶家庭平均供電一小時。
Deliveries from the new factory will reportedly start by the first quarter of 2025. Tesla first announced plans to manufacture 10,000 Megapacks in a year in China, equalling about 40 gigawatts of energy storage, in April 2023.
據報道，新工廠的交付將於2025年第一季度開始。2023年4月，特斯拉首次宣佈計劃在中國每年生產1萬個兆瓦的儲能，相當於約40千兆瓦的儲能。
Why It Matters: Last month, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the demand for its stationary energy storage products is "super high" and hinted that the company might make more batteries for energy storage than cars in the long term.
爲何重要：上個月，特斯拉首席執行官埃隆·馬斯克表示，對其固定儲能產品的需求 “非常高”，並暗示從長遠來看，該公司生產的儲能電池可能比汽車多。
In the first quarter of 2024, Tesla deployed 4,053 MWh of energy storage products, representing its highest quarterly deployment to date and a year-on-year increase of 4.2%.
在2024年第一季度，特斯拉部署了4,053兆瓦時的儲能產品，這是其迄今爲止最高的季度部署，同比增長4.2％。
In January, the company expressed expectations for the growth rate of deployment and revenue in the energy storage business in 2024 to surpass that of the automotive sector.
1月，該公司表示預計儲能業務的部署和收入增長率將在2024年超過汽車行業。
Tesla acknowledged that deployments may be subject to volatility and impacted by logistics and global product distribution. Nevertheless, it remains optimistic about continued growth on a 12-month basis.
特斯拉承認，部署可能會受到波動的影響，並受到物流和全球產品分銷的影響。儘管如此，它仍然對12個月的持續增長持樂觀態度。
The EV giant already operates a 4.5-million-square-foot facility in China, Giga Shanghai, which produces the popular Model 3 and Model Y SUVs and rolled out its 2-millionth vehicle in September last year.
這家電動汽車巨頭已經在中國運營着佔地450萬平方英尺的工廠，即Giga Shanghai，該工廠生產廣受歡迎的Model 3和Model Y SUV，並於去年9月推出了其第200萬輛汽車。
The move also comes amid Tesla's largest layoffs, which has also significantly affected its Chinese workforce.
此舉也是在特斯拉進行最大規模的裁員之際採取的，這也嚴重影響了其中國員工。
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