www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文
Business / Auto Global

Tesla to raise $1.6b to build battery factory

(Agencies) Updated: 2014-02-28 10:37

Tesla to raise $1.6b to build battery factory
The Tesla logo is pictured on Feb 5, 2014 in its first?Chinese mainland?show room in Beijing. [Hao Yan / chinadaily.com.cn]

Tesla Motors Inc?said on Wednesday it plans to raise $1.6 billion from investors to finance a new battery factory that will help the upstart US automaker reach its goal of producing a lower-priced, mass-market electric car by 2017.

Tesla said the new plant, nicknamed the "Gigafactory," would be built in one of four states: Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico or Texas. By 2020, Tesla said, the plant would be able to make more lithium-ion batteries in a year than were produced worldwide in 2013.

The company said the plant will open in 2017 and ship batteries to the company's assembly plant near San Francisco.

Tesla to raise $1.6b to build battery factory

The Palo Alto, California-based maker of high-priced electric cars plans to raise the money by selling convertible senior notes, half of them due in 2019 and the other half in 2021, it said in an 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission,

Analysts believe the factory may ultimately cost $5 billion to $6 billion to build and will be funded with the help of some of Tesla's Japanese suppliers, including Panasonic Corp.

The plant, which will handle everything from processing raw materials to final assembly, will produce small, lightweight batteries for Tesla and may also supply other automakers.

Battery costs have been a major stumbling block to widespread electric car adoption in the United States, according to analysts. Tesla's new factory will lower costs by shifting material, cell, module and pack production to one spot.

In Tesla's earnings conference call last week, Chief Executive Elon Musk said the electric car maker expects to build the factory with more than one partner, but a "default assumption" was that Panasonic, as a current battery cell partner, "would continue to partner with us in the gigafactory."

"The factory is really there to support the volume of the third generation car," Musk, a billionaire entrepreneur, said on the call.

"We want to have the vehicle engineering and tooling come to fruition the same time as the "Gigafactory." It is already part of one strategy, one combined effort."

Tesla, which Musk founded in 2003, posted better-than-expected fourth-quarter results last week and said deliveries of its luxury Model S electric sedan would surge more than 55 percent this year to more than 35,000 vehicles.

By comparison, the best-selling car in the United States last year, the Toyota Camry, sold about 408,000 in 2013.

In after-hours trading, Tesla shares were up about 2 percent at $258.60, adding to a 2 percent gain in regular trading.

Earlier this week, Consumer Reports named the Model S car its overall top car pick for 2014. The magazine cited the Model S's "exceptional performance and its many impressive technological innovations," though the magazine called it "pricey" at $89,650.

 

More stories:

Tesla to raise $1.6b to build battery factory

Tesla, electric, hybrid cars at Frankfurt 2013 Motor Show?

Tesla to raise $1.6b to build battery factory

Experts eye Tesla to spur China's electric car market

Hot Topics

Editor's Picks
...
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 亚洲在线免费观看视频 | 毛片视频网站在线观看 | 成人永久福利在线观看不卡 | se就是色94欧美setu | 手机在线视频一区 | 国产免费高清 | 亚洲国产成人久久精品图片 | 一级一片 | 在线免费精品视频 | 看看免费a一片欧 | 一级一级一片免费高清 | 中文字幕日韩国产 | 成人在线手机视频 | 韩国美女爽快毛片免费 | 2021一本久道 | 国产一区亚洲 | 女让张开腿让男人桶视频 | 精品国产视频在线观看 | 精品久久久久不卡无毒 | 亚洲国产品综合人成综合网站 | 日本一级爽毛片在线看 | 在线91精品国产免费 | 亚欧成人一区二区 | a毛片在线观看 | 国内精自线一二区 | 国产精品特黄毛片 | 免费看片亚洲 | 欧美aaaa在线观看视频免费 | 91成人在线播放 | 综合久久久久久久 | 国内精自线一二区 | 偷偷操不一样的久久 | 一区二区成人国产精品 | 韩国免又爽又刺激激情视频 | 日本加勒比在线视频 | 毛片啪啪视频 | 日本视频免费在线播放 | 久久婷五月天 | 男女男精品视频网站 | 国产成人精品免费午夜 | 久久99热精品免费观看k影院 |