Tesla plans to build cathode building at
Texas Gigafactory
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[February 04, 2022]
By Tina Bellon
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Tesla Inc on
Wednesday applied for a permit to extend its existing Austin-based car
factory with a building to produce cathodes for battery manufacturing,
according to city filings and a spokeswoman. |
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The Tesla logo is seen on a car in Los Angeles, California, U.S., July
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An
application submitted on Wednesday for an Austin building permit
under the program name "Cathode" listed the Colorado River
Project LLC as a co-applicant. That is the name Tesla has used
throughout the permitting process for its new Texas factory on
the state and local level.
"I can confirm that this is for the Tesla project and this
permit is for a cathode building," a spokeswoman for the city's
development services department said on Thursday, adding that
the city did not have further information.
News site Electrek first reported on the filing on Thursday.
The new building would extend Tesla's existing vehicle factory
located on the eastern outskirts of Austin near the airport.
According to the city filing, it would have the size of nearly
1.6 million square feet.
The electric carmaker began manufacturing vehicles at the
factory on the eastern outskirts of Austin earlier this year.
Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk in September said Tesla plans
to build a cathode facility as part of its battery cell
production plant.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on Jan. 20
approved Tesla's vehicle manufacturing site. The carmaker still
has several other permits pending with the commission, which
needs to provide air quality permits for polluting manufacturing
sites.
In 2020 filings with the Commission, Tesla said its emissions
sources for battery cell production would include anode and
cathode mixing dust.
Cathodes are the single most expensive component of a battery
and producing them requires lots of space and emits large
quantities of CO2 emissions.
(Reporting by Tina Bellon in Austin, Texas; Editing by Alistair
Bell)
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