Tesla is celebrating the milestone of having produced 1,000 Powerwall 3s in a single day, but it raises eyebrows since the company recently claimed it could produce twice as many.
Today, Tesla shared a celebration from its Gigafactory Nevada team for producing 1,000 Powerwalls in a single day:
At first, I thought: “oh, cool, that’s great,” but then I remembered that I wrote this article just a few months ago:
As explained in the article, Tesla released a video showcasing the production of the Powerwall 3 in August and claimed that it could produce 700,000 units per year at the time.
Now, four months later, Tesla celebrates producing 1,000 in a single day, which would mean 365,000 units per year if it were to maintain that from now on.
As we reported in August, we were surprised to see Tesla reporting a capacity of 700,000 Powerwalls per year, considering Tesla had previously reported having produced just 500,000 Powerwalls in its first 8 years of production, and now it can produce more than that in just a year.
Electrek’s Take
It certainly raises a few questions. At the time, Tesla was still producing some Powerwall 2 and now it appears to have completely shifted to Powerwall 3.
Could the shift have caused the production to be halved? I doubt it because that prior video was entirely about Powerwall 3.
This celebration of 1,000 Powerwalls in a day was about production at Giga Nevada. As far as I know that’s the only location where Tesla is producing the Powerwall. Is there somewhere else we don’t know about that could account for the difference?
That would be news to me.
Or could Tesla be lying?
What do you think? Let us know in the comment section below.
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