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Tesla plans 10-20 gigafactories which would eventually be about 12 to 24 million vehicles per year

• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang

* Tesla is making a big push to expand its supercharger network of fast-charging stations—capable of adding enough charge to drive 170 miles in 30 minute—for Tesla owners. The company plans to double the number of superchargers this year to 10,000 by end of 2017, and add at least 50% more the following year. Tesla says it's adding "amenities" to certain supercharger stations, although did not give specifics.

* Tesla is deploying a new version of its self driving system. Tesla will no longer use the Mobileye sensors and algorithms used in earlier models.

* Musk repeated the goal of driving a fully autonomous vehicle from a parking lot in California to New York City without touching the controls at any point along the way.

* Tesla plans to ramp up overall production to a pace of 500,000 cars per year by 2018 up from about 50,000 last year

* the first Model 3 production vehicle in July 2017


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