Tesla Gigafactory:   die weiße Flagge wird schonmal ausgepackt......

The Gigafactory 

We are developing the Gigafactory as a facility where we work together with our suppliers to integrate production of battery material, cells, modules and battery packs in one location. We broke ground on the Gigafactory in June 2014 and began assembling our Tesla Energy products in the first portion of the facility in the fourth quarter of 2015.  We currently expect to produce cells at this site beginning in 2016 for use initially in our Tesla Energy products and later for our vehicles. Over the next few years, we will continue to invest in the expansion of additional Tesla Energy production capacity.  

We continue to invest in construction of the building and utilities at the Gigafactory and in production equipment for battery, module and pack production. We will be responsible for the overall management of the Gigafactory and will engage with partners who have significant experience in battery cell and material production. Panasonic has agreed to partner with us on the Gigafactory with investments in production equipment that it will use to manufacture and supply us with battery cells. Under our arrangement with Panasonic, we plan to purchase the full output from their production equipment at negotiated prices.  As these terms convey a right to use the production related assets as defined within ASC 840 – Leases, we will consider these leased assets beginning with the start of cell production in 2016.

Given the size and complexity of this undertaking, the cost of building and operating the Gigafactory could exceed our current expectations, we may have difficulty signing up additional partners, and the Gigafactory may take longer to bring online than we anticipate.

 Soweit der Geschäftsbericht.

Wohlgemerkt: das steht nicht im üblichen disclaimer part des Geschäftsberichtes (der bei jeder Firma nach dem Prinziep "cover your ass" so ziemlich alles, bis hin zu "und der Himmel könnte uns auf den Kopf fallen" enthält), sondern in den Erwartungen.

Wetten daß bei einem der nächsten Reports vom Eintreten mindestens eines der Ereignisse berichtet wird ?    ;-)



Gruß     SRAM