Tesla's Gigafactory

Tesla is building what will be the world's largest battery factory. Drone footage taken in the desert of Nevada shows how construction has moved along.

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The first drone flyover of Tesla's Gigafactory.
This will be the world's largest battery factory.
Size: 10 million square feet
Cost: $5 billion
Production capacity: 50 gigawatt hours
Enough to power 500,000 Tesla cars
The factory will be powered by renewables
Production starts in 2016
This could be just the beginning. Elon Musk predicts hundreds of Gigafactories.

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