As noted the day before, Tesla’s ability to start equipping Semi trucks with battery cells of a standard size strongly depends on the timing of their mass production, so the company is doing everything possible to speed up the preparation. For a facility under construction in Texas, she has already begun hiring staff to manufacture batteries.

While the cells of the new standard size 4680 roll off only from the assembly line of the experimental line in California, they are unlikely to be enough for the mass production of Tesla Semi tractors. Serial production of trucks should be deployed in Texas, where an assembly plant is currently being built. The production of Cybertruck pickups will also be established here, but Tesla is already preparing to deploy a production of battery cells in Texas. This can be judged, as noted by Electrek, by the list of Tesla vacancies in this state. Many of them are directly related to the future production of traction batteries.

It is difficult to judge by such announcements in what terms the production of battery cells will be launched in Texas, but the American enterprise will not be the only supplier of such products. The production of 4680 cells will also be launched in the immediate vicinity of the German company Tesla. In Nevada, Tesla already has a joint venture with Panasonic to manufacture more conventional 18650 battery cells, but the Texas facility will be the first in the United States to self-produce batteries.