INDIVIDUAL FACILITIES AND SELECTED SOURCES
Below is basic information about individual facilities in our database and selected sources we've drawn on to support the analysis. To navigate to other sites, use the search page.

Tesla Gigafactory 1 (Semi Truck Manufacturing)

Tesla

Sparks, NV, USA

-119.4421817, 39.5401656

The Big Green Machine Site ID: 25B

Additional Information:

Sector: EVs

Activity: Manufacturing

Product: EVs

Project Announcement Date: 1/24/2023

Target for Starting Production: 2025

Announced Post Inflation Reduction Act: Yes

Target Annual Production: 50000 EVs

Current Annual Production: 250 EVs

Operating Status: Under Construction

Target Jobs: 1500

Current Jobs: 0

Capital Investment: $1800 million

Congressional District: Republican

Government Subsidies:

We currently have no government subsidies tracked for this site.

Selected Sources:

“Is Tesla Building The Semi In This Secret Facility Near Giga Nevada?”, Andrei Nedelea, InsideEVs, 19 Oct 2022. 🔗

“Elon Musk: Tesla Semi Production Target Is 50,000 Units In 2024”, InsideEVs, 20 Oct 2022. 🔗

“Elon Musk updates Tesla Semi production”, Peter Johnson, Electrek, 14 Jun 2023. 🔗

“Tesla unveils render of upcoming Semi Factory to build electric trucks”, Peter Johnson, Electrek, 27 Jul 2024. 🔗

“Tesla Semi trucks were spotted in numbers coming out of the factory”, Peter Johnson, Electrek, 06 Sep 2024. 🔗

“Tesla Semi will be available worldwide, says Elon Musk”, Peter Johnson, Electrek, 15 Oct 2024. 🔗

“Tesla plans to deliver an extra ~500,000 electric cars next year, here’s how”, Peter Johnson, Electrek, 29 Oct 2024. 🔗

“Tesla Semi factory gets its main structure, on track for production in 2025”, Peter Johnson, Electrek, 27 Dec 2024. 🔗

“Tesla’s Giga Nevada Semi factory gets its first steel beams”, Zachary Visconti, TESLARATI, 26 Aug 2024. 🔗

“Tesla Completes Wall, Roof Construction at Semi Factory”, Keiron Greenhalgh, Transport Topics, 30 Jan 2025. 🔗

Tracked Expansions, Acquisitions, or Related Sites:

This site has 3 major expansion(s).

Those expansion(s) are tracked below: