Transportation
Tesla to Open US Battery Plant With Equipment From China’s CATL
- Small Nevada facility to make cells for automaker’s Megapack
- CATL won’t have ongoing role after sale of machinery
The Tesla factory in Lathrop, California.
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Tesla Inc. will expand battery production in Nevada, opening a small facility using idle equipment from China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd., according to people familiar with the matter.
The automaker plans to buy machinery from CATL, as the battery maker is known, and install it in the city of Sparks, said the people, who asked not to be identified. Tesla will have full control of the facility and cover 100% of the costs, and CATL personnel won’t be involved beyond helping set up the equipment, they said.