Why Nevada? Why Slumberger? Why not? Gigafactory & Terafactory
Klein pointed out that when Tesla first opened the Nevada Gigafactory, it had an annual production target of 35 GWh, and Tesla would require 25,000 tons of lithium per year to produce 35 GWh. In comparison, a terafactory could be 28 times larger than the size of the Nevada Gigafactory. Just one terafactory would require 800,000 tons of lithium per year.