Tesla announced plans to build a large-scale battery plant in Shanghai.
The Megapack facility will be capable of producing 10,000 container-sized batteries per year when it comes online in 2024.
- Megapacks are Tesla's energy storage infrastructure that it says can help "stabilize the grid and prevent outages."
- Each large-scale energy-storage unit, or Megapack, can store 3 megawatt hours, or enough energy to power 3,600 homes for an hour.
- In its initial run, the Shanghai facility will produce 10,000 Megapack units annually or 40-gigawatt hours of energy storage.
- The output will supplement production at Tesla's Megapack factory in Lathrop, California, near San Francisco.
- The Chinese plant will be located near
Tesla’s vehicle factory. Gigafactory Shanghai is the automaker's most
productive factory, producing 710,865 vehicles in 2022, or about 54% of all Tesla vehicles sold that year.
