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Old 08-16-2019, 02:10 PM   #1284 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Piotrsko View Post
The giga guys I know say they are pressed just to keep up with tesla demand. There were expectations of a capacity doubling remodel that afaik didn't happen.
Panasonic announced that they are not increasing capacity because additional capacity isn’t needed.

There are two “silos” at the gigafactory: Panasonic makes the cells and Tesla assembles them into modules and then battery packs. Is the bottleneck your friends are reporting in cell production or assembly?
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