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Apparent Tesla Cybertruck endurance test setup spotted in Giga Nevada

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This was hinted at in a recent sighting of the Tesla Cybertruck in the Giga Nevada Semi facility. As could be seen in the video, which was shared on X by Tesla Giga Nevada watcher @HinrichsZane , the company seems to have hooked up a Cybertruck to a trailer. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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Tesla Gigafactory Nevada gets another batch of rooftop solar panels

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Tesla Gigafactory Nevada might not be attracting as much attention as its newer siblings like Giga Texas and Giga Berlin, but the massive battery factory is still undergoing improvements. This is evidenced by satellite images from late March, which still showed a notably lower volume of solar panels on Giga Nevada’s roof. .

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Redwood Materials opens up new facility just miles from Tesla Giga Nevada

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Straubel, has opened up a new manufacturing facility in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Park, just miles from Tesla’s Giga Nevada production facility. Redwood’s new facility is just miles from Tesla Giga Nevada, where the automaker has a joint venture with Panasonic to produce electric vehicle batteries.

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Tesla Insurance expands to Nevada, now covers nine U.S. states

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Tesla’s in-house insurance program has officially expanded to Nevada. Nevada joins Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, and Virginia as states that utilize Tesla Insurance, which bases rates on real-time driving behavior in all regions except for California due to Statewide restrictions.

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Benchmark Mineral Intelligence: global battery gigafactory pipeline tops 300; China dominates

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Joint ventures between automakers and battery companies have been central to this growth. In September 2019, just one of the five North American gigafactories tracked by Benchmark directly involved an automaker: Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 in Nevada. Europe has increased its pipeline by eight gigafactories over the same period.

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Lithium-ion battery recycler ABTC expands operations and capacity with newly purchased facility

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In 2019, ABTC detailed the operations of this integrated battery recycling system in a global competition hosted by BASF, and was subsequently selected as the sole winner of the battery recycling portion of the Circularity Challenge.

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Redwood Materials launches EV battery recycling program; initial partners Ford Motor Company and Volvo

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Ford Motor Company and Volvo Cars are the first automakers to support the program directly, but Redwood will accept all lithium-ion (Li-ion) and nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries in the state. The partnership with Panasonic began in 2019 and since, Redwood has been recycling all Panasonic’s manufacturing scrap from the Tesla Gigafactory.

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