From the San Francisco Chronicle:
The upstart automaker also wants to build batteries capable of powering homes or businesses, an emerging market that could even surpass Tesla’s core business making high-end electric sedans.
Tesla recently disclosed plans for a $5 billion “Gigafactory” to make advanced batteries for its next generation of cars. But the Palo Alto firm also said it will use some of the lithium-ion batteries for “stationary storage applications,” according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
And from RenewableEnergyWorld:
. . . its eye-popping numbers: a 10 million square foot facility on an entire land area of 500-1,000 acres, with output of 35 GWh/year of battery cells and 50 GWh/year of battery packs by 2020. That’ll be enough to support 500,000 of the company’s forthcoming Gen-3 vehicles, compared with a little over 20,000 annual demand for its cars today.
By comparison, the entire lithium-ion battery supply-chain produced about 34 GWh in 2013, the vast amount going not to electric vehicles but consumer electronics.
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